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 Soci...