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02696aam a2200337 i 4500 001 CE5C349CAA0511EE99E4BB4527ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240103010037 008 220304s2020 nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9780063215399 020 $a 006321539X 035 $a (OCoLC)1301904016 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d TDS $d GZD $d SILO 100 1 $a Swanson, Peter, $d 1968- $e author. 245 10 $a Eight perfect murders : $b a novel / $c Peter Swanson. 246 3 $a 8 perfect murders 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, $c [2022] 300 $a 329 pages ; $c 20 cm 500 $a Includes excerpt from The Kind Worth Saving. 520 $a Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre's most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack--which he titled "Eight Perfect Murders"--chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie's A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin's Death Trap, A. A. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain's Double Indemnity, John D. Macdonald's The Drowner, and Donna Tartt's A Secret History. But no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of the Old Devils Bookstore in Boston, when an FBI agent comes knocking on his door one snowy day in February. She's looking for information about a series of unsolved murders that look eerily similar to the killings on Mal's old list. And the FBI agent isn't the only one interested in this bookseller who spends almost every night at home reading. There is killer is out there, watching his every move--a diabolical threat who knows way too much about Mal's personal history, especially the secrets he's never told anyone, even his recently deceased wife. To protect himself, Mal begins looking into possible suspects...and sees a killer in everyone around him. But Mal doesn't count on the investigation leaving a trail of death in its wake. Suddenly, a series of shocking twists leaves more victims dead--and the noose around Mal's neck grows so tight he might never escape. 610 10 $a United States. $b Federal Bureau of Investigation $x Employees $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Booksellers and bookselling $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Widowers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Secrecy $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Serial murderers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Murder $x Investigation $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction) $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l ESPD725 $d 20240103010329.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CE5C349CAA0511EE99E4BB4527ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search