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Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Saving

Amazon   Back in 2019 (my review), I read and loved Peter Swanson's The Kind Worth Killing, which shares a premise with Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train: What if two people who have no reason to know each other collaborate on a murder? More than five years later, I come to find out that the author has published two sequels! So I reread book one to refresh my memory—and loved it again—and then got my hands on The Kind Worth Saving. Like its predecessor, this story is told from multiple perspectives, and readers of the first book (which should certainly be read first) will see some familiar faces here along with new ones. This book also preserves a hint of that Strangers on a Train premise—the power of secret relationships when it comes to plotting murder. For me, the sequel wasn't quite as compelling as the first book, perhaps just because I knew more or less what to expect from the story: murders of convenience. But book one was also more twisty and featured a more relatable bad-guy protagonist. Nonetheless, The Kind Worth Saving is a good read, and I'm ready to jump into book three in the series (A Talent for Murder).