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SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING JULIA ROBERTS
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
‘A dazzlingly clever murder mystery, told backwards.’ GILLIAN McALLISTER
‘Deliciously dark.’ JOHN MARRS
‘Exhilarating’ DANYA KUKAFKA
‘Ingenious’ LAURA LIPPMAN

What if the only way to bury the truth is to bury your husband?
The first attempt at killing her husband was the night of the dinner party.

After forty years, Thom Graves has become an incredible disappointment to his wife, Wendy – he drinks too much, flirts with other women, and worst of all, is in danger of revealing their dark secret. But how far is Wendy willing to go to stop him?

Starting at the end, and ending at the beginning, Kill Your Darlings is an ingenious mystery about two people’s life together, and the secrets which fatally bind them.

PRAISE FOR PETER SWANSON:
‘A killer read with twist after twist.’ JANICE HALLETT (on A Talent for Murder)
‘One of the world’s best crime writers. Nobody writes psychopaths like Swanson.’ MARK EDWARDS
‘Delicious . . . I defy you to stop reading once you begin.’ New York Times (on The Christmas Guest)

Publisher Review

“An ingenious twist on a noir classic, about the hell that awaits co-conspirators Wendy and Thom after they become a ‘happy’ married couple. Swanson’s decision to move swiftly backward in time over 40-plus years is surprisingly suspenseful. I raced through the pages, anxious to learn the couple’s last deadly secret — and I was not disappointed.” – Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of Prom Mom

“A feat of structural magnificence– the instant I turned the final page, I flipped straight back to the start to put it all together again. Exhilarating and exceptionally clever, Kill Your Darlings zings with a singular sense of tension. Peter Swanson writes with the lyrical acuity of a literary master.” – Danya Kukafka, nationally bestselling author of Notes on an Execution

‘I absolutely loved it. What a deliciously dark book.’ – John Marrs

‘An incredible tour de force of structure and character and plot – Peter Swanson is a flat out genius. Kill Your Darlings’ deeply psychological underpinnings will have you holding your breath as you turn the pages. Both crushingly inevitable and completely haunting, I honestly applauded at the ending.’ – Hank Phillippi Ryan