Third, he didn’t hide anything from the reader. It was very original and exciting to follow. Second, I think he’s a very confident, daring writer as he chose to let us know who actually the criminal is and turned this into a mind blowing chase plot. Swanson surely knows how to do characterisation, build a perfect plot, keep you on the edge until the last moment. This book is great on so many levels that I don’t know where to start. I don’t think I’ll read a better one this year. So clever, so unpredictable, full of twists and turns. This book BLEW MY MIND! Best crime fiction I’ve read in a long time. I’d really recommend to read this book without reading a blurb to enjoy it to the full, so I’ll only give you the short description on Goodreads: From the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes an exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban wife with a history of psychological instability whose fears about her new neighbour could lead them both to murder. Then one night, when she comes face-to-face with Matthew in a dark parking lot, she realizes he knows she’s been watching him, that she’s really on to him and that this is the beginning of a horrifying nightmare she may not live to escape….Well, in this case, this book is the Audi of thrillers for me 🙂 It gives you all you can ask from a thriller/mystery: The more Hen observes Matthew, the more she suspects he’s planning something truly terrifying. Hen knows because she’s long had a fascination with this unsolved murder – an obsession she doesn’t talk about anymore but can’t fully shake, either.Ĭould her neighbor Matthew be a killer? Or is this the beginning of another psychotic episode like the one she suffered back in college, when she became so consumed with proving a fellow student guilty that she ended up hurting a classmate? The sports trophy looks exactly like one that went missing from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago. Finally, she’s found some stability and peace.īut when they meet the neighbors next door, that calm begins to erode as she spots a familiar object displayed on the husband’s office shelf. Hen (short for Henrietta) is an illustrator and works out of a studio nearby and has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. Hen and her husband, Lloyd, have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Summary: Catching a killer is dangerous – especially if he lives next door.įrom the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes an exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban wife with a history of psychological instability whose fears about her new neighbor could lead them both to murder…. Book: Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson

Before she knew him book summary