Four books that share a single, unsettling quality: the darkness in them is quite deliberate. A chance encounter in an airport lounge ends in a murder plot. A friend who drowns at a luxury resort and leaves two survivors with questions they would rather not answer. A father and son who escape grief only to find something worse waiting. A novelist, bedridden and alone, receiving calls from a woman who may exist only on the page. Swanson, Elliott, North and Lippman each understand that the most disturbing menace is the kind that has thought itself through.
Peter Swanson, 'The Kind Worth Killing' - A Heathrow lounge, a delayed flight, and a stranger's quiet offer to help commit the perfect murder.
Laura Lippman, 'Dream Girl' - Three friends, one island, one drowning. Two survivors must ask the questions they would rather leave buried.
Alex North, 'The Whisper Man' - A father and son escape grief by moving to a new town to kind a killer was already there.
Lexie Elliott, 'How to Kill Your Best Friend' - Bedridden in his penthouse, a crime novelist receives calls from his own creation.
