Emily Tirella
“All my ideas have murders in them,” Peter Swanson once told an interviewer. In most contexts, it might be something of a warning sign, but for an author of mystery novels, it’s probably something closer to destiny manifesting as morbid obsession. Swanson published his first novel,
The Girl With A Clock For A Heart, in 2014. One of those read-it-in-one-sitting genre bingeables that dominate the fiction shelves of WHSmith branches up and down the country, it was something of a statement of intent. Building proudly on one of the all-time classic Hollywood thriller set-ups, Swanson’s almost cinematic debut followed George Foss, a directionless late-thirtysomething whose life is turned upside down when an ex-lover presumed dead reappears in his life, two decades after she disappeared. A handful more novels of similar dramatic inclination have followed at a rate of almost one a year, culminating in this year’s
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