Peter Swanson 4 Book Set The Kind Worth Killing, All the Beautiful Lies & more

Peter Swanson 4 Book Set brings together four thrillers in which secrets, suspicion and the fallout from a single conversation or encounter shape what follows. Spanning chance meetings and shifting relationships, the collection moves from an airport bar confession to a return home after a sudden death, and from a new neighbourhood friendship to a honeymoon retreat off the Maine coast.

Across the set, strangers cross paths in unexpected places and past events begin to surface. Each novel follows characters drawn into situations that become increasingly dark and threatening, as questions of trust and hidden motives take hold.

Included titles

• The Kind Worth Killing
• All the Beautiful Lies
• Before She Knew Him
• Every Vow You Break

Key details

• Four-book set
• Written by Peter Swanson
• Includes four individually titled novels

Synopses

The Kind Worth Killing

With his flight delayed, Ted Severson meets Lily Kintner in an airport bar. Over too many martinis, he admits his wife has been unfaithful and confesses that he wishes her dead. Lily, a stranger he has only just met, offers to help him make it happen.

All the Beautiful Lies

On the eve of his college graduation, Harry is called back to his home on the Maine coast after the unexpected death of his father. As he questions who Alice really is, his father’s much younger second wife, her past begins to emerge through a split narrative. As her story connects with Harry’s present, the situation grows darker and more threatening.

Before She Knew Him

Hen and Lloyd move into a new house and are glad to meet another childless couple nearby, Matthew and Mira. After being invited to dinner, Hen believes she notices something suspicious in Matthew’s study. She begins to wonder whether the mild-mannered schoolteacher is hiding a dark secret, and whether anyone would believe her if she spoke up.

Every Vow You Break

After a whirlwind romance, Abigail Baskin marries Bruce Lamb, a newly minted Silicon Valley millionaire. For their honeymoon, he takes her to an exclusive retreat at a friend’s resort off the Maine coast on Heart Pond Island. Once there, Abigail recognises a fellow guest as the charismatic stranger who had seduced her weeks earlier at her own bachelorette party.