4.5⭐

Ted Severson and Lily Kintner are co-passengers who meet at London's Heathrow airport and strike up a casual conversation over drinks as they wait for their flight back to Boston. Their conversation gradually develops into a more personal conversation with Ted spilling details about his troubled marriage. Ted is wealthy and successful and has been married to his wife Miranda for three years. Miranda is cheating on her husband with a contractor named Brad Daggett who is doing work on their new home in Maine. Unbeknownst to Miranda, Ted is aware of her indiscretions. He casually remarks to Lily that he is so angry that he could kill his wife. Lily, to his surprise, offers to help him.

“Truthfully, I don’t think murder is necessarily as bad as people make it out to be. Everyone dies. What difference does it make if a few bad apples get pushed along a little sooner than God intended? And your wife, for example, seems like the kind worth killing.”

Lily knows what she is talking about. She has a bagful of secrets in her past and had dealt with her problems in her own unique ways. She is smart, calculating and devious with a capital D. As Lily and Ted continue to meet, without the effect of alcohol clouding their senses, they discuss the matter further. But things don’t go quite as planned and what follows is a wild ride with murder, mayhem, deceit and some mind-boggling twists and turns that never failed to surprise and kept me glued to the pages till the very end. Initially, I was ready for this to be along the lines of “Strangers on a Train” which is a favorite but honestly, I wanted it to be different (I prefer the originals, in most cases) and the author definitely delivered. With a fast-paced narrative with multiple PoVs, interesting strongly-developed characters and a well-structured plot, Peter Swanson’s “The Kind Worth Killing” is a gripping read that I would not hesitate to recommend.

Nine Lives was the first book by Peter Swanson that I had read and was a tad underwhelmed. Many of my GR friends recommended this novel and I am so thankful! I absolutely loved this story and devoured it in less than a day!

“We understood that survival was everything. It was the meaning of life. And to take another life was, in many ways, the greatest expression of what it meant to be alive.” ( )

DNF
Starting off with pedophillia and animal killing isn’t my cup of tea.

Ted & Lily are two strangers on a plane, or are they? They have a conversation about killing his cheating wife. What follows is a roller coaster of cat and mouse, double crosses, and murders. Switching back and forth between present and past uncovers secrets, lies, and connections. What follows is revelations and answers. The book unfortunately ends with a cliffhanger ( )

I almost quit on it after the rich guy got killed. I was really looking forward to him and Lily getting serious.
Overall, the story itself isn't that bad! ( )

2.75
my expectations were way too high, this wasnt anything special in my humble opinion ( )