![]() ![]() I think Swanson explored mental illness in a considerate way, acknowledging how hard it can be to get people to believe you about something once you’ve been labeled crazy. My Thoughts: Before She Knew Him is a fascinating character study with alternating voices. I especially enjoyed the back and forth between Hen and Matthew. The plot moved very quickly, and I finished this book way more quickly than expected. I certainly will be trying to get to them sooner now! This is my first Peter Swanson novel, but I have many of them on my TBR. Undoubtedly a decent read, just not sensational. ![]() Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside of Boston. ![]() “They had a secret, the two of them, and there was no better way to start a friendship than with a secret.” Whereas Swanson’s prose normally sets my synapses firing and imagination racing, Before She Knew Him feels rather more workmanlike. Catching a killer is dangerousespecially if he lives next door 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 neighbor could lead them both to murder. Dustin threatened to find her and rape her another time, but Matthew killed him before he got the chance. They met at a bar and went back to his place, and he almost raped her. ![]() Hen had known Dustin Miller before Matthew killed him. Matthew confessed, and realized that Richard wasn’t his real brother. Lloyd had snuck into his house and Matthew killed him. He had killed Michelle as well as all the men, and tried to kill Hen. Matthew’s brother was actually his split personality (Richard in real life had died in infancy). ![]()
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