Suddenly, a series of shocking twists leaves more victims dead-and the noose around Mal’s neck grows so tight he might never escape. But Mal doesn’t count on the investigation leaving a trail of death in its wake. and sees a killer in everyone around him. To protect himself, Mal begins looking into possible suspects. There is 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. And the FBI agent isn’t the only one interested in this bookseller who spends almost every night at home reading. She’s looking for information about a series of unsolved murders that look eerily similar to the killings on Mal’s old list. Macdonald's The Drowner, and Donna Tartt's A Secret History.īut 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. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Murders, Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin’s Death Trap, A. 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. Put on your amateur sleuth hat and join Peter Swanson on this delightfully nostalgic, utterly clever journey through the greatest murders in crime fiction.
I haven’t had this much fun reading a crime novel in ages. It’s a story steeped in genre history and present-day in-jokes, and it’s one that no crime fiction reader will want to miss. EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS is a love letter to the crime fiction genre. Will these crimes prove as impossible to solve in the real world as they are on the page? In his newest release, Swanson delivers a shocking, addictive mystery with a classic crime twist. Following the owner of a mystery-dedicated bookstore in Boston, EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS imagines what happens when a person with a desire to do harm gets his or her hands on a guide to some of the most infallible murders in the crime fiction genre. I’ve been a mystery reader since I was a little kid (I owe a debt of gratitude to Carolyn Keene and Nancy Drew for that!), and over the years certain books - and certain murders found in the pages of those books - have stuck out as “perfect.” In Peter Swanson’s EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS, fictional crimes become a blueprint for real-life violence. What makes for the perfect murder? If you’re as crime fiction obsessed as I am, it’s probably a question that’s popped into your head once or twice in the context of the murder mysteries you are devouring. The Verdict: a must-read for crime fiction obsessed bookworms
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