The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

 

An airplane flight often leads to short term acquaintances talking about things they would never tell anyone else.  That was the case with Ted and Lily.  Both were returning from London to Boston and seated next to each other, they began talking.  After a while, Ted starts to talk about his marriage to Miranda and how he is sure it is headed to divorce.  Maybe she just married him for his money, he thinks, as he has recently caught her in an affair with the contractor they are using to build Miranda's dream house in Maine.  Sometimes he'd like to kill her, he says.  But he isn't ready for Lily's offer to help him if he'd like.

What Ted doesn't know about Lily is that this wouldn't be her first murder.  In fact, she has a long history of murder but her beauty and youth has so far allowed her to escape legal notice.  Now she and Ted come up with a plan to rid him of Miranda without losing all his money in a divorce and setting up Brad, the contractor, as the villain.  With this work out?

Peter Swanson is known for his imaginative mysteries and this one is no different.  There are tons of twists and turns and the reader is never quite sure what will happen next.  Peter Swanson has written nine novels and won numerous awards in this genre.  He has recently released a followup book to this novel named The Kind Worth Saving that brings back some of the same characters.  This book is recommended for mystery readers.