Rules for Perfect Murders [Paperback] Swanson, Peter

Malcolm Kershaw owns a Boston bookstore and years ago wrote a blog post called "Eight Perfect Murders" — a list of classic mystery novels where the killer gets away with it. Neat literary exercise, until an FBI agent shows up at his door. Someone is committing real murders, following his list to the letter. Now Malcolm is caught in a deadly game where fiction bleeds into reality, and the killer might be closer than he thinks. Peter Swanson delivers a serpentine thriller that reads like a love letter to the mystery genre while gleefully subverting every trope. The prose is crisp, the structure clever, and the final twist will make you want to flip back to page one immediately. For fans of Agatha Christie and Donna Tartt who like their mysteries with a meta edge.