Her Every Fear
Author: Peter Swanson
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date of Publication: January 10, 2017
Pages: 352
Peter Swanson is rapidly climbing my favorite author list. He's not quite up there with Michael Connelley but he's getting there! I first read The Girl with a Clock for a Heart about a year ago,then devoured The Kind Worth Killing and now Her Every Fear. Each of these books shares common traits. All three have intricate, twisting and unpredictable plots. The author was educated in Mssachusetts and now lives in Somerset. Each of these stories is mainly set in Boston, a town the author obviously knows very well.. The characters in all of the novels are flawed "everymen and everywomen" who can be identified with.They each have a different but very unique premise. This book has the most despicable villains. Another cool feature is that the author pays homage to previous thriller and mystery writers by having his characters read time-honored novels. Peter Swanson also has a great respect for all things Alfred Hitchcock. Her Every Fear pays tribute to Hitchcock's classic "Rear Window".
Kate Priddy is a young British woman recovering from a trauma inflicted by an ex-boyfriend After months of therapy she agrees to trade apartments for six months with a distant male cousin from Boston whom she has never met. The day Kate moves into his Beacon Hill apartment a dead woman named Audrey Marshall is found in the adjacent apartment. The ensemble cast of characters includes a creepy man who has been stalking the now dead woman, some quite eccentric older apartment residents and the cousin who may have been involved romantically with the murdered neighbor. The cousin's former college roommate surfaces from time to time as well. The murky plot moves along at a slow but steady pace and has plenty of unanticipated twists and turns. Just when you think you have everything figured out something unravels and you have to rethink things. So, who killed Audrey Marshall? You have to read the whole book to find out!
Go get a book by Peter Swanson and read it. It doesn't matter which one. They are totally independent stories (albeit with some common structural features) and they are all equally good.
Kate Priddy is a young British woman recovering from a trauma inflicted by an ex-boyfriend After months of therapy she agrees to trade apartments for six months with a distant male cousin from Boston whom she has never met. The day Kate moves into his Beacon Hill apartment a dead woman named Audrey Marshall is found in the adjacent apartment. The ensemble cast of characters includes a creepy man who has been stalking the now dead woman, some quite eccentric older apartment residents and the cousin who may have been involved romantically with the murdered neighbor. The cousin's former college roommate surfaces from time to time as well. The murky plot moves along at a slow but steady pace and has plenty of unanticipated twists and turns. Just when you think you have everything figured out something unravels and you have to rethink things. So, who killed Audrey Marshall? You have to read the whole book to find out!
Go get a book by Peter Swanson and read it. It doesn't matter which one. They are totally independent stories (albeit with some common structural features) and they are all equally good.
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