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Kill Your Darlings
A Thriller & Suspense Novel by Peter Swanson
Subgenres:
- Domestic Thriller,
- Psychological Thriller,
- Reverse Chronology
This book is for you if you're into...
- Marriage thrillers told in reverse
- Dark secrets that bind couples for decades
- Literary mysteries with poets and professors
From Little Stack
If you need a book that is as fascinating as it is gripping, then this one is a must! Wendy and Thom met at school and have been together for over four decades. But after being a unit for so long, something has changed within Wendy. These days, she wants to kill Thom.
Their marriage had been built on dark secrets hidden away, but she needs to take action. And it’s the only way the truth can stay buried… This is such a unique, dark and clever novel with backwards storytelling, something that should be on every crime lover's reading lists!
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders comes an inventive, utterly propulsive murder-mystery in reverse, tracing a marriage back in time to uncover the dark secret at its heart.
Thom and Wendy Graves have been married for over twenty-five years. They live in a beautiful Victorian on the north shore of Massachusetts. Wendy is a published poet and Thom teaches English literature at a nearby university. Their son, Jason, is all grown up. All is well…except that Wendy wants to murder her husband.
What happens next has everything to do with what happened before. The story of Wendy and Thom's marriage is told in reverse, moving backward through time to witness key moments from the couple's lives—their fiftieth birthday party, buying their home, Jason's birth, the mysterious death of a work colleague—all painting a portrait of a marriage defined by a single terrible act they plotted together many years ago.
Eventually we learn the details of what Thom and Wendy did in their early twenties, a secret that has kept them bound together through the length of their marriage. But its power over them is fraying, and each of them begins to wonder if they would be better off making sure their spouse carries their secrets to the grave.
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