A Talent for Murder

Martha Ratliff thought she had a comfortable, ordinary marriage — until small inconsistencies in her frequently traveling husband's stories begin to add up to a terrifying suspicion: that the mild-mannered man she married might be a killer. Too frightened to go to the police with only a hunch, Martha turns to an old college acquaintance, the quietly formidable Lily Kintner, to help her learn the truth. The third Henry Kimball / Lily Kintner novel pairs slow-building domestic dread with Peter Swanson's trademark reversals, as Lily is drawn back into a world where curiosity about murder is never entirely safe.