A Talent for Murder

A Novel

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  • A
  • newlywed
  • librarian
  • begins
  • to
  • suspect
  • the
  • man
  • she
  • married
  • might
  • be
  • a
  • murderer—in
  • this
  • spectacularly
  • twisty
  • and
  • deviously
  • clever
  • novel
  • by
  • Peter
  • Swanson,
  • New
  • York
  • Times
  • bestselling
  • author
  • of
  • The
  • Kind
  • Worth
  • Killing
  • and
  • Eight
  • Perfect
  • Murders.Martha
  • Ratliff
  • conceded
  • long
  • ago
  • that
  • she’d
  • likely
  • spend
  • her
  • life
  • alone.
  • She
  • was
  • fine
  • with
  • it,
  • happy
  • with
  • her
  • solo
  • existence,
  • stimulated
  • by
  • her
  • work
  • as
  • a
  • librarian
  • in
  • Maine.
  • But
  • then
  • she
  • met
  • Alan,
  • a
  • charming
  • and
  • sweet-natured
  • salesman
  • whose
  • job
  • took
  • him
  • on
  • the
  • road
  • for
  • half
  • the
  • year.
  • When
  • he
  • asked
  • her
  • to
  • marry
  • him,
  • she
  • said
  • yes,
  • even
  • though
  • he
  • still
  • felt
  • a
  • little
  • bit
  • like
  • a
  • stranger.A
  • year
  • in
  • and
  • the
  • marriage
  • was
  • good,
  • except
  • for
  • that
  • strange
  • blood
  • streak
  • on
  • the
  • back
  • of
  • one
  • of
  • his
  • shirts
  • he’d
  • worn
  • to
  • a
  • conference
  • in
  • Denver.
  • Her
  • curiosity
  • turning
  • to
  • suspicion,
  • Martha
  • investigates
  • the
  • cities
  • Alan
  • visited
  • over
  • the
  • past
  • year
  • and
  • uncovers
  • a
  • disturbing
  • pattern—five
  • unsolved
  • cases
  • of
  • murdered
  • women.Is
  • she
  • married
  • to
  • a
  • serial
  • killer?
  • Or
  • could
  • it
  • merely
  • be
  • a
  • coincidence?
  • Unsure
  • what
  • to
  • think,
  • Martha
  • contacts
  • an
  • old
  • friend
  • from
  • graduate
  • school
  • for
  • advice.
  • Lily
  • Kintner
  • once
  • helped
  • Martha
  • out
  • of
  • a
  • jam
  • with
  • an
  • abusive
  • boyfriend
  • and
  • may
  • have
  • some
  • insight.
  • Intrigued,
  • Lily
  • offers
  • to
  • meet
  • Alan
  • to
  • find
  • out
  • what
  • kind
  • of
  • man
  • he
  • really
  • is
  • .
  • .
  • .but
  • what
  • Lily
  • uncovers
  • is
  • more
  • perplexing
  • and
  • wicked
  • than
  • they
  • ever
  • could
  • have expected.
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