Peter Swanson

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Peter Swanson (born 1968 ) is an American writer.

Life

Peter Swanson studied at Trinity College and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and received an MFA in Poetry from Emerson College . He lives in Somerville , Massachusetts with his wife .

Swanson released his first thriller in 2014 . The book The Girl With a Clock For a Heart was on the shortlist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize . The second novel, The Kind Worth Killing , won the New England Society Book Award and was a finalist in the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger . The two books have been translated into several languages.

While writing, he learned from Stephen King's guide to life and writing , and he names John D. MacDonald as his literary role model .

Works

  • The girl with a clock for a heart . London: Faber & Faber, 2014
  • The kind worth killing . New York, NY: William Morrow, 2014
  • Her every fear . New York, NY: Harperluxe, 2017
  • All the beautiful lies. New York, NY: HarperLuxe, 2018
    • One death is not enough: thriller. Translation of Fred Kinzel. Munich: Blanvalet, 2020, ISBN 978-3-7341-0554-8 .
  • Before she knew him. New York, NY: William Morrow, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Swanson , at Blanvalet Verlag
personal data
SURNAME Swanson, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968