Kill Your Darlings

by Peter Swanson

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Pub Date 3 Jul 2025 | Archive Date 10 Jul 2025

Faber and Faber Ltd

Mystery & Thrillers

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Description

The first attempt at killing her husband was the night of the dinner party.

After forty years, Thom Graves has become an incredible disappointment to his wife, Wendy – he drinks too much, flirts with other women, and worst of all, is in danger of revealing their dark secret. But how far is Wendy willing to go to stop him?

Starting at the end, and ending at the beginning, Kill Your Darlings is an ingenious mystery about two people's life together, and the secrets which fatally bind them – soon to be a major film starring Julia Roberts.

The first attempt at killing her husband was the night of the dinner party.

After forty years, Thom Graves has become an incredible disappointment to his wife, Wendy – he drinks too much, flirts with...

Advance Praise

'I absolutely loved it. What a deliciously dark book.' JOHN MARRS

'Ingenious... I raced through the pages, anxious to learn the couple's last deadly secret – and I was not disappointed.' LAURA LIPPMAN

'A feat of structural magnificence – the instant I turned the final page, I flipped straight back to the start to put it all together again. Exhilarating and exceptionally clever.' DANYA KUKAFKA

'Peter Swanson is a flat out genius. Kill Your Darlings' deeply psychological underpinnings will have you holding your breath as you turn the pages. Both crushingly inevitable and completely haunting, I honestly applauded at the ending.' HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN

'I absolutely loved it. What a deliciously dark book.' JOHN MARRS

'Ingenious... I raced through the pages, anxious to learn the couple's last deadly secret – and I was not disappointed.' LAURA LIPPMAN

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