Kill Your Darlings By Peter Swanson

A dazzlingly clever murder mystery, told backwards, asking the question: why would this loving wife murder her husband?
Gillian McAllister

Short, sweet and utterly vicious, this is one of those brilliantly written thrillers that's truly satisfying . . . you can easily see why Julia Roberts will be starring in the forthcoming screen adaptation.
Stylist, ‘Unmissable new thrillers to read this summer’

Clever . . . the reveal is everything you want it to be.
Good Housekeeping

Swanson's clever, twisty novel is a meditation on memory, marriage, and the dark side of storytelling.
Oprah Daily

In this brilliant story, which is told in reverse, there are razor-sharp moments that will have you doing an air punch because it's so good!
Prima

Ingenious . . . I raced through the pages, anxious to learn the couple's last deadly secret – and I was not disappointed.
Laura Lippman

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.
Danya Kukafka

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

One only has to think of Martin Amis's Booker-nominated 'Time's Arrow' (Swanson gives a nod to Amis by giving him a brief cameo). Such a device, however, has rarely been pulled off in a thriller, but Swanson manages it here while still providing readers with all the requisite thrills. It's also a book fizzing with moral ambiguities.
Crack Magazine, Book of the Month

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

Both a meditation on comeuppance and a steely nail-biter. . . A heady, allusive, tweedy-seedy slow burn.
Kirkus Reviews

Twisty and clever. . . An addictive read brimming with jaw-dropping surprises.
Library Journal

Nature and nurture, free will and coercion, a lust to be exceptional and the fear of going to hell all tussle and tango throughout this imaginatively structured and relentlessly tense work.
Wall Street Journal

Swanson is in terrific form here: The story flows backward in time, capturing a long-term marriage – one bound by an early secret – from killing to courtship, while putting Swanson's trademark low-key but palpable humor to particularly impressive effect.
Boston Globe

I sat in silence when I put the book down, and have been pondering the narrative as Kill your Darlings provokes deep thought – contemplation of fate intertwined with free-will to form our lives and our deaths and that of others that we interact with . . . Totally unmissable.
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