Peter SwansonThriller · Psychological Thriller·b. 1968
A Talent for Murder
Synopsis
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.
How it reads
Prose complexity 4/10
Content warnings (1)
Violence


