The Kind Worth Killing
Peter Swanson
Morrow, Feb 3 2015, $25.00
ISBN: 9780062267528
In a Heathrow bar while their flight to Logan
is delayed, affluent Bostonian businessman Ted Severson meets Lily Kintner, an archivist
at the city’s western suburb Winslow College.
Perhaps it is the gin or just his rage, but he tells his new drinking
buddy that he obsesses over murdering his wife Miranda for cheating on
him. An experienced killer who has
turned death into an art form, Lily calmly offers to take care of his spouse.
In Boston, Ted and Lily begin meeting to
develop their execution plan. At the
same time BPD Detective Henry Kimball investigates Lily who he believes is at
the center of several homicides.
However, as Ted gets to know his accomplice, he begins to believe he
stepped out of the frying pan into the fire and knows what he must do to
extinguish the flame before it engulfs him.
Starting with the irony of Lily reading Patricia
Highsmith’s The Two Faces of January, this contemporary rendition of Strangers on a Train is a terrific twisting crime
thriller. Rotating perspective between
the psychopath, the desperate husband (who soon will learn what desperate truly
means), the obsessed cop, and the wife; this is a great character-driven suspense.
Harriet Klausner
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