#Peter Swanson

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“Books are time travel. True readers all know this. But books don’t just take you back to the time in which they were written; they can take you back to different versions of yourself.”

Peter Swanson, Eight Perfect Murders

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books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 118

A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson

“I’d learned that being anonymous was far better than being noticed.”

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My month in media - October 2024

Film

Jackpot

Longlegs

TV

Cardcaptor Sakura

The Mentalist

Love Is Blind

OJ: Made in America

The Perfect Couple

Find Me in Paris

Game Changer

Succession

Books

The Disappearing Act - Catherine Steadman

The Girls Are All So Nice Here - L. E. Flynn

Perfect - L. A. Kessler

The Kind Worth Killing - Peter Swanson

The Kind Worth Saving - Peter Swanson

Podcasts

Respect the Dead

Mormon Stories

YouTube

The Short n’ Sweet Tour

State of Kait

Mia Maples

Games

Cardcaptor Sakura: Memory Key

Faerie Fragments

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Did the 24-hour reading challenge recently with my best friend and somehow chose the most upsetting books to read for it. I finished:

“Heaven”, Meiko Kawakami

“Written on the Body”, Jeanette Winterson

“The Audition”, Ryu Murakami

“A Talent for Murder”, Peter Swanson

(also my high school yearbook because Robin got distracted)

Lots of heavy material to pack into such a short timeframe.

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Huit crimes parfaits, Peter Swanson

Malcolm est un libraire spécialisé en polar, qui, il y a des années, a créé pour son blog une liste des huit meilleurs crimes dans les romans — les plus ingénieux, les plus fous, bref, les huit crimes parfaits. Et tout se passait bien dans sa vie, jusqu’à ce que le FBI toque à la porte de sa librairie : quelqu’un semble s’inspirer de sa liste et reproduit presque à la lettre chacun des crimes…

J’ai accroché tout de suite ! J’avais lu et adoré Vis-à-vis du même auteur, et j’avais très envie de découvrir celui-ci. J’ai surtout aimé le fait que c’est un livre sur les livres, j’adore les romans qui parlent de littérature. Le personnage de Malcolm est très vite attachant… et très vite étrange. Il nous parle du succès des Apparences de Gillian Flynn, qui a créé l’essor des polars domestiques et des narrateurs peu fiables, et c’est bien ironique, parce qu’on en vient très rapidement à douter de lui. Il y a autre chose, et j’ai adoré que ce soit découvert petit à petit. Seul bémol à relever, Peter Swanson spoile certains des romans dont nous parle son personnage (bon ok ce sont des classiques, il y a prescription tout ça tout ça, n’empêche que j’étais bien contente d’avoir lu Le meurtre de Roger Ackroyd avant de lire Huit crimes parfaits… et que si vous ne l’avez pas lu, sautez les quelques lignes où Malcolm en parle). Huit crimes parfaits fait du bon boulot et tient ses promesses : la combinaison roman-sur-des-romans, narrateur peu fiable et aspect psychologique est géniale, et j’ai adoré me faire malmener jusqu’au dénouement final. Gros coup de cœur !

22/01/2024 - 23/01/2024

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Kmuse’s Book Reviews (December 11th, 2023)

It is the holiday season which means there are many times we introverts are stuck at parties and just want to sneak off to a corner and read a book. If you are like me and this is a common occurrence, here are some of my recent favorites for you to choose your next winter read. Continue reading Untitled

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Slaying Suspicion

#BOOKREVIEW - Slaying Suspicion - #ATalentForMurder #blog #booksky

When an odd bit of blood on her husband’s shirt raises questions about what he’s been up to while traveling, reaching out to an old friend for help begins a series of events that could alter everything in A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson. In a relatively new marriage between Martha, an archival librarian who had come to accept her solo existence, and Alan, a salesman who traveled for half…

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December Archive ❄️☃️

What I ended my year with…

Some books I read:

Films:

Albums:

1. May It Never Falter - Glaive

2. A Colt 45 Christmas - Afroman

3. The Never Ends - Juice WRLD

4. Christmas on Death Row compilation

5. GNX - Kendrick Lamar

6. Saaheem - SahBabii

7. Access All Areas: Unlocked - FLO

8. Married to the Money II - Speaker Knockerz

9. Maybe in Nirvana - Smino

10. Throwing Bows - Monaleo

11. Musical Massage - Leon Ware

12. Finesse Father - Speaker Knockerz

13. DROGAS Light - Lupe Fiasco

14. Christmas in tha Dogghouse - Snoop Dogg

15. Married to the Money - Speaker Knockerz

16. XO - Elliott Smith

17. 8 Days of Christmas - Destiny’s Child

18. ArtScience - Robert Glasper

19. 36 Seasons - Ghostface Killah

20. What Might Happen - Cletus Strap

21. SOS Deluxe: LANA - SZA

22. #gigi - skaiwater

23. El Brujo - Yaisel LM

24. I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU - JPEGMAFIA

25. MEGAN: ACT II - Megan thee Stallion

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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced”.

—James Baldwin

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Year in Review

I know this is a day late, I wanted to get it up yesterday, but life happens. So here is last years reading challenge. I didn't gain much traction towards the end of the year due to life dragging me to the depths for a sink or swim test. So although I didn't get much further in my reading challenge, I did have plans for each of these categories and this next year, I plan to take a small break from my reading challenge and read what I have laying about. The TBR has grown exponentially since starting with these challenges.

Reading challenge journey:

A dystopian

Involves a STEM topic - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Katie Moore

Philosophy book - The Cat Who Taught Zen by James Norbury

One From TBR - Sherlock Holmes and the Red Tower by Mark A. Latham

Themed Holiday - The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson

Read Before - A Shameful Life (No Longer Human) by Osamu Dazai

African-American Author

From the Library - Kill Joy by Holly Jackson

A New Favorite Author - As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

A Novella - What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher

Romance - Pestilence by Laura Thalassa

Dark Acadamia

Made Into a Show or Movie

That’s Won a Prize

About Nature - The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

World Reading Challenge:

Latin America

Australia

Scotland

Japan

Egypt - Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Iraq

Russia - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Malaysia

Brazil

Iceland

Morocco

Zimbabwe

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“She rarely talked, and when she did, it was only about books.”

Peter Swanson, Eight Perfect Murders

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books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 153

The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson

“Chance of romance: nonexistent. Chance of gothic thriller murder mystery: growing by the minute.”

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The four novellas I read this weekend

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Review: A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson

Series: Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner #3Author: Peter SwansonPublisher: William MorrowReleased: June 11, 2024Received: Own (BOTM)Find it on Goodreads | BOTM | More Thrillers Book Summary: Martha Ratliff used to think she was cursed when it came to love – literally. So you can imagine her delight when finding a man worth marrying (even if she admittedly didn’t know him that well). Unfortunately, a…

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Mystery/Thriller Monday

A murder mystery, involving a librarian in Maine. Peter Swanson definitely knows his audience.

Martha has been married to Alan for a year. And, for the most part, their marriage seems good. Except that she once found a blood streak on the back of one of his shirts. He’d just been back from a conference in Denver. Is she married to a murderer, or even a serial killer? She calls up on of her old Grad School friends, Lily Kintner (ooh, from the previous two books, always love a series/stand alone sort of book!) and then both of them are on the case to see what sort of guy Alan really is, and, is he indeed a murderer (or is it even more twisty and complicated that that).

This book was awesome. It was a thriller, it was mystery, it was twisty to the max, and, it starred a librarian in all the right ways. Another really really fun Swanson read!

You may like this book If you Liked: What the Wife Knew by Darby Kane, Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews, or The New Husband by Daniel Palmer

A Talent For Murder by Peter Swanson

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week #39 recommendation: bee

Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson

▪︎ thriller novel ▪︎

hen and lloyd’s new neighbors are just like any other couple. they’ve even been invited over to dinner, and mira (the wife) is already growing on hen. matthew, however…well, it’s not every day you move in next to a murderer.

okay, but he’s got reasons. dustin raped a girl, and he was going to keep doing it if he wasn’t stopped. no, he’s not a white knight—matthew is just someone with a very strong sense of justice. or at least, that’s what he tells himself. it’s what he tells hen, too, after she’s caught on to his act. together they’re caught in a strange sort of relationship where they’re the only ones who can understand each other (except richard, of course). hen knows that eventually this has to end—whatever those other men have done, matthew is a dangerous person who should be in prison, if not jail. but after that incident in college, who’s going to believe her?

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it’s been a while since i read a thriller i really enjoyed (no, this says nothing about me). matthew’s urges are described perfectly, the sick excitement that must come from spilling your own secrets. the way he divides crimes into two categories—him, who kills men, and richard, who hurts (or more?) women. and then there’s the marriages. hen’s own disinterest in hers in the second half of the book is really interesting, that feeling when you just know that it’s not going to get any better so it’s best to cut it off. and then she doesn’t get a chance to cope with lloyd later on—which might’ve been what she wanted, but was ultimately unable to happen.