All the Beautiful Lies

Author(s): Peter Swanson

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'He's the real deal...' JOE HILL

'Another read in one sitting from the best-selling Swanson.' METRO

'A brilliantly original premise, delivered with panache.' CLARE MACKINTOSH


On the eve of his college graduation, Harry is called home by his step-mother Alice, to their house on the Maine coast, following the unexpected death of his father.


But who really is Alice, his father's much younger second wife? In a brilliant split narrative, Peter Swanson teases out the stories and damage that lie in her past. And as her story entwines with Harry's in the present, things grow increasingly dark and threatening - will Harry be able to see any of it clearly through his own confused feelings?

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In a dark and brilliant guessing game of a novel - evoking Patricia Highsmith and Agatha Christie - Peter Swanson once again displays his unique gift for lovingly reprising and refreshing mystery writing's greatest tropes.

Peter Swanson is the author of The Kind Worth Killing, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, and Her Every Fear. His stories and poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Measure, Mysterical-E, Soundings East, The Vocabula Review, and Yankee Magazine. His second novel, The Kind Worth Killing, won the New England Society Book Award for fiction. He has degrees in Creative Writing, Education, and Literature from Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College. He lives with his wife in Somerville, Massachusetts.

General Fields

  • : 9780571327188
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : 0.415
  • : April 2018
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : April 2018
  • : September 2021
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Peter Swanson
  • : Paperback
  • : Export - Airside ed
  • : English
  • : 813.6
  • : 304