It’s a dark thing to say, but Lily is okay with it and offers to help him to do it. As Ted starts to spill, he admits that they are not right for each other and says that he could kill his wife for what she’s done. The alcohol and the game leads to them revealing a lot of details to each other, with Ted admitting that his marriage is going stale and he believes that his wife is cheating on him. The book begins with Ted Severson on a night flight from London to Boston On his flight, he meets a beautiful woman named Lily and the two of them go on to share quite a few drinks and start to play a game of truth or dare. Swanson returned with The Kind Worth Killing, which drew comparisons to great books like The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl. He makes the choice to help which sends him into a world of lies, secrets, betrayal, and murder which he might not be able to get out of. George knows that this woman is trouble and that he should run the other way, but he could never say no to her and isn’t about to start now. Now, she is here looking for George’s help from some dangerous men who are after her. She’s someone that he’s never been able to forget and she just might be a killer who is wanted by the police. The woman is Liana Dector, George’s first love, who has been missing for twenty years.

The story of The Girl With a Clock for a Heart starts on an ordinary Friday night when George Foss has his predictable life shattered when a beautiful woman sits down at the bar. It was quickly optioned for a film upon release. The book is a bit of a romantic noir with hints of Alfred Hitchcock. The Girl With a Clock for a Heart was Peter Swanson’s debut novel.

During his collegiate career, Swanson graduated from Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College. He has spent a good portion of his life in the Northeast area of the United States as he also attended college in the area. Peter makes his home on the North Shore of Massachusetts with his wife. He has had his writing appear in publications such as Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Atlantic Monthly, Measure, The Guardian, The Strand Magazine, and Yankee Magazine. In addition to writing novels, Swanson also writes stories, features, and poetry. That meeting ultimately lead to Swanson getting a book deal and his first book, The Girl With a Clock for a Heart being published in 2014. He wrote fiction for ten years of his life before an agent read a short story of his online and agreed to represent him. Swanson has been working on his craft for a long time and it was awhile before he was published. He was also decorated for Her Every Fear which was named as an NPR book of the year.

He was a finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award for The Kind Worth Killing and that book was also the winner of the New England Society Book Award. Peter Swanson is a bestselling author best known for writing The Kind Worth Killing and Her Every Fear.

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