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The Kind Worth Saving
'Nobody writes psychopaths like Swanson.' Mark Edwards
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Do you remember me? she asked, after stepping into my office.
When private detective and former teacher Henry Kimball is hired to investigate an ex-pupil's cheating husband, he senses all is not quite what it seems, and before he knows it, he's gotten far too close to the other woman. As the case gets ever stranger, he turns to the only person he can trust, Lily Kintner, someone with dark secrets of her own.
With its ingenious clockwork-like plot, and twists aplenty, The Kind Worth Saving is a crime novel to savour from a modern master.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780571373567
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 March 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Export - Airside ed
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 406g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Peter Swanson's novels include The Girl With a Clock for a Heart, nominated for an LA Times book award, The Kind Worth Killing, a Richard and Judy pick and the iBooks store's thriller of the year in 2015; Rules for Perfect Murders, the 2020 Richard and Judy Pick; and most recently Every Vow You Break. He lives with his wife and cat on the north coast of Massachusetts.
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