March 12, 2020
 March 12, 2020 This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Friday, March 13th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of EIGHT PERFECT MURDERS by Peter Swanson, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!  Today's Featured Book and Contest:  From the hugely talented author of BEFORE SHE KNEW HIM comes a chilling tale of psychological suspense and a homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction’s most ingenious murders. 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. A 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. Click here to enter the contest This is a special newsletter for our Spring Preview contests, which will mail on select days in March and April. This newsletter is separate from our weekly Bookreporter.com newsletter, which mails every Friday. You can subscribe to that newsletter here. Please visit the other websites in TheBookReportNetwork.com: ReadingGroupGuides.com, Teenreads.com, Kidsreads.com and AuthorsOnTheWeb.com. |
