The Kind Worth Saving: A Novel
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Peter Swanson. (2023). The Kind Worth Saving: A Novel. HarperCollins.

Peter Swanson. 2023. The Kind Worth Saving: A Novel. HarperCollins.

Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2023.

Peter Swanson. The Kind Worth Saving: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2023.

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     Peter Swanson is the New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger; Her Every Fear, an NPR book of the year; and Eight Perfect Murders, a New York Times bestseller, among others. His books have been translated into 30 languages. He lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts, where he is at work on his next novel.

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"The inventive Mr. Swanson never lets the willing reader down. With The Kind Worth Saving, he surpasses his own high standard." — Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson, a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, but little does he know that the twisted trail will lead back to the woman who hired him.

There was always something slightly dangerous about Joan. So, when she turns up at private inves­tigator Henry Kimball's office asking him to investigate her husband, he can't help feeling ill at ease. Just the sight of her stirs up a chilling memory: He knew Joan in his previous life as a high school English teacher, when he was at the center of a tragedy.

Now Joan needs his help proving that her husband is cheating. But what should be a simple case of infidelity becomes much more complicated when Kimball finds two bodies in an uninhabited suburban home with a FOR SALE sign out front. Suddenly it feels like the past is repeating itself, and Henry must go back to one of the worst days of his life to uncover the truth.

Is it possible that Joan knows something about that day, something she's hidden all these years? Could there still be a killer out there, someone who believes they have gotten away with murder? Henry is determined to find out, enlisting help from his old nemesis Lily Kintner—but as he steps closer to the truth, a murderer is getting closer to him, and in this hair-raising game of cat and mouse only one of them will survive.

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     October 1, 2022
     

     Private investigator Henry Kimball is uneasy when Joan, connected to a tragedy during his teaching days, suddenly appears and asks him to keep tabs on her husband. Good thinking: his investigation leads him to two dead bodies in an empty suburban home touting a "for sale" sign--and lots of questions about the possibly treacherous Joan. From the New York Times best-selling Swanson; with a 100,000-copy first printing.

     Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     January 2, 2023
     Bestseller Swanson (Nine Lives) cleverly plays with genre conventions in this twist-filled mystery. Boston PI Henry Kimball’s two previous jobs had bad endings. He’d been a Massachusetts high school English teacher but left after a student pulled a gun and killed a classmate before turning the weapon on himself, leaving Kimball tormented by thoughts he could have prevented those deaths. His time with the Boston PD ended after he formed an unhealthy obsession with a homicide suspect, penning “multiple unsavory limericks about her.” Kimball’s past resurfaces when he’s retained by former student Joan Whalen, who wants him to prove that her real estate broker husband, Richard, is unfaithful. The detective isn’t convinced that his client is being completely truthful. Flashbacks to the couple’s first interactions when they were teenagers and their families were both vacationing in Maine up the ante, as does Kimball’s discovery of two bodies in an uninhabited house with a for sale sign outside. Swanson’s especially good at capturing the complexity of Kimball’s inner life. Readers will be hard-pressed not to devour this in one sitting to ascertain whether, and how, past and present connect. Agent: Nat Sobel, Sobel Weber Assoc.

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     December 1, 2022
     

     In this sequel to his 2015 best-seller The Kind Worth Killing, Swanson delves into the depraved mind of a killer through the lens of an oddly matched murderous duo. Fifteen years ago, first-year teacher Henry Kimball's classroom was the scene of a school shooting that resulted in one casualty. Now working as a private investigator, Henry is hired by Joan Whalen, a model student from his brief teaching career. Joan enlists Henry to investigate her real estate broker husband, whom she suspects of infidelity. Henry's somewhat unscrupulous methods put him in the wrong place at the wrong time, and he quickly realizes that he is ensnared in much more than a simple case of adultery. Henry reunites with an unexpected ghost from his past to help unravel a decades-old trail of deception and evil. As Henry inches closer to the truth, his own life hangs precariously in the balance. The result is a spine-tingling quest to expose evil before evil wins. VERDICT Psychological thriller fanatics will scramble to complete this satisfyingly twisty novel.--Mary Todd Chesnut

     Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     Starred review from March 1, 2023
     This isn't exactly a sequel to Swanson's The Kind Worth Killing (2015), though several of the characters, including the gloriously warped Lily Kintner, reappear here, but it does reprise the same creepy theme: sociopathic spiders and the not-quite-innocent flies they attempt to entrap in their labyrinthine webs (when they aren't trapping one another). Only this time Swanson ups the ante dramatically, improvising in triple time on his theme and introducing a new queen spider to the game, Joan Grieve, who hires a private detective, Henry Kimball, to determine if her husband is cheating. Oh, but there's so much more to it than that: Henry knows Joan from years before, when he was her teacher in high school and a tragic shooting impacted them both. And let's not forget Lily, who was involved in her own tragedy long ago and who was investigated by Henry, with whom she now has a very odd friendship. When Henry turns to Lily for help after the matter of Joan's philandering husband takes an unexpected turn, the stage is set for another of Swanson's signature feats of vertigo-inducing legerdemain. It isn't so much plot twists that keep the reader reeling here (though there are plenty of those) as it is the growing realization of the horrors lurking within the minds of seemingly ordinary people.

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In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson, a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, but little does he know that the twisted trail will lead back to the woman who hired him.

There was always something slightly dangerous about Joan. So, when she turns up at private inves­tigator Henry Kimball's office asking him to investigate her husband, he can't help feeling ill at ease. Just the sight of her stirs up a chilling memory: He knew Joan in his previous life as a high school English teacher, when he was at the center of a tragedy.

Now Joan needs his help proving that her husband is cheating. But what should be a simple case of infidelity becomes much more complicated when Kimball finds two bodies in...

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