Peter Swanson

Peter Swanson (born 26 May 1968) is an American author of psychological suspense and crime fiction. He was born in Concord, Massachusetts and grew up in nearby Carlisle, apart from two years spent in England as a child.

He studied at Trinity College in Connecticut, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Emerson College, and worked as a bookseller before publishing his first novel, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, in 2014.

His second, The Kind Worth Killing (2015), won the New England Society Book Award and was a finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger; later novels include Her Every Fear (2017), Eight Perfect Murders (2020) and The Kind Worth Saving (2023). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

He lives in Gloucester, on the North Shore of Massachusetts.