The Kind Worth Killing
Peter Swanson · first published 2015 · ISBN 9780062267542
At a Heathrow airport bar, two strangers bond over secrets. Ted wants to kill his unfaithful wife. Lily, a beautiful archivist, says she can help. What Ted doesn't know is that Lily has made a career of dispassionate murder. What Lily doesn't know is that Ted has his own agenda. Their alliance spirals into a game of deception where both players are willing to kill to stay ahead.
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Swanson wears his debt to Highsmith and Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train proudly, but he adds a contemporary twist: dual unreliable narrators who are equally competent and equally ruthless. The book punishes both of them for what they've done and what they want, with no redemption in sight. It's a masterclass in how to make two terrible people completely absorbing.