Eight Perfect Murders - Peter Swanson

Eight Perfect Murders

By Peter Swanson

  • Release Date: 2020-03-03
  • Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Score: 4
4
From 602 Ratings

Description

New York Times bestseller

“Swanson rips us from one startling plot twist to the next… A true tour de force.” —Lisa Gardner

“[A] multilayered mystery that brims with duplicity, betrayal and revenge.” —USA Today

From the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes a chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction’s most ingenious murders.

Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre’s most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack—which he titled “Eight Perfect Murders”—chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie’s A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin’s Deathtrap, A. A. Milne's The Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, John D. MacDonald's The Drowner, and Donna Tartt's The Secret History.

But no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of the Old Devils Bookstore in Boston, when an FBI agent comes knocking on his door one snowy day in February. She’s looking for information about a series of unsolved murders that look eerily similar to the killings on Mal’s old list. And the FBI agent isn’t the only one interested in this bookseller who spends almost every night at home reading. The killer is out there, watching his every move—a diabolical threat who knows way too much about Mal’s personal history, especially the secrets he’s never told anyone, even his recently deceased wife.

To protect himself, Mal begins looking into possible suspects . . . and sees a killer in everyone around him. But Mal doesn’t count on the investigation leaving a trail of death in its wake. Suddenly, a series of shocking twists leaves more victims dead—and the noose around Mal’s neck grows so tight he might never escape.

Reviews

  • Am I the only one?

    1
    By 07892736729937
    Am I the only one that found this book extremely boring and hard to get through? I was so excited to read this since it’s so popular. I kept on forcing myself to finish it in hopes that there would be some crazy twist but nooooooothing
  • Just Ok

    2
    By Moosierates
    This book had me intrigued from the onset but didn’t go anywhere exciting. The “twists” were anticlimactic at best and all the buildup led nowhere.
  • Enjoyed it!

    5
    By Clo1979
    I very much enjoyed this book!
  • This will keep you guessing until the very end

    4
    By kaykaybean13
    Wow! The twists and the turns in this book were phenomenal and the ending was an incredible shock! Bookstore owner is questioned by FBI about a blog he wrote years ago that listed his 8 books with the perfect murders because there’s been a similarity between a few unsolved cases that seem to be mimicking the murders in his recommendations on the blog. You will not believe the outcome!
  • Name dropper

    2
    By AguaJefe
    This could have been much better, but the author seemed to be more interested in name-dropping other murder mysteries than, you know, writing his own. If one had not read all those referenced mysteries, then keeping up with the detecting was less than satisfying. Not to mention that the motive of the murderer was nonsensical.