The Kind Worth Saving: 'Nobody writes psychopaths like Swanson.' Mark Edwards

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I don’t want to give too much away, but, if you love evil characters who work to set the world to rights, this is your book.

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For, after tailing them to an empty suburban home with a FOR SALE sign posted out front, Kimball will make a horrifying discovery: two dead bodies lying inside.Instead of hanging everything on a twist that we may or may not figure out, he draws us into his characters' minds and makes wondering what will happen to them the real pull of the book. But I could also argue that because the two books have a lot of similarities (which I won’t go into in this review), I found The Kind Worth Killing more surprising and enjoyable to read.

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The story then switches to Joan’s point of view, with something that happened when she was a teenager, on a rather reluctant holiday on the coast of Maine with her parents. I was rooting for the manipulative, selfish characters and had a lot of fun following along their paths. He’d been a Massachusetts high school English teacher but left after a student pulled a gun and killed a classmate before turning the weapon on himself, leaving Kimball tormented by thoughts he could have prevented those deaths. It seems that Joan has a strong suspicion that her once loving husband, Richard, is cheating on her. But, on the other hand, it just didn’t quite live up to the epic proportions of its precursor, The Kind Worth Killing.

But, just as his life with the police came to a dirty end, so too did his teaching career in a horrible tragedy that Kimball has worked hard to put in his past. Any reader who enjoys diving into the excitement of the traditional cat-and-mouse chase will find that plus so much more in Peter Swanson’s newest novel. The audiobook is excellent with four narrators, but my favorite goes to Keith Szarabaijka as Henry Kimball. Duane, a slightly older boy, starts to pursue her, invites her to a beach party which turns out to be just himself and Joan, and attempts to rape her.

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Ashley Smith, an American art student in London for her junior year, was planning on spending Christmas alone, but a last-minute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall, country residence of the Chapman family. Private Detective Henry Kimball is hired by an ex-student from his days as a teacher at Dartford-Middleham High. What was the purpose of Richards ex-girlfriend (Karen), and that guy that Joan slept with (George, who attended her wedding as the plus one with one of her husbands collage friends)?Joan Grieve hires private detective Henry Kimball to investigate whether her husband is having an affair with his co-worker. All of his novels – and there’s been one almost every year since 2014 – have been standalone, though they generally take place in or around Boston. I really wanted to like this book and throw myself into it, but there were some developments that had me rolling my eyes in disbelief.