Review: Rules for Perfect Murders - Peter Swanson

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Rules for Perfect Murders (Malcolm Kershaw, #1)

Review: Rules for Perfect Murders - Book #1 Malcolm Kershaw Series - Peter Swanson - March 2020

 

This book captured my attention as it talked about a list of murders being committed that were based on murders that happened in books, other than that I wasn't sure what the book was about. The book starts with us meeting Malcolm Kershaw who owns a second-hand bookshop and he meets one morning an FBI agent. She has come across some murder cases which seem to match a booklist he wrote years ago on a book blog he started for the second-hand bookshop back when he was just a shop assistant. It seems that someone is going through his list of perfect murder scenarios and killing them starting with the ABC Killer. This has our main character, Malcolm, thinking back 5 years ago when he committed his murder in a case that was based on Strangers on a Train after meeting someone on the dark web. He has lived with this dark secret and now with the FBI poking around in his life, he starts to become a bit nervous about it coming back to him and so he contacts an ex-cop friend of his to do some digging of his own. As the book goes on, we notice that the killings are connected to the people that he knew through the bookshop or his personal life - through his wife who also died years ago. Is the killer someone close to Malcolm or is someone wanting to set him up to take the fall or option 3 - is this just some big coincidence? Find out in Rules for Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson. As this was a brit lit UK mystery, it is told at a slower pace which they are well-known for rather than the fast American-paced murder mysteries. However, if you are like me and love books and crime - you will find yourself in a comfort zone with Rules for Perfect Murders.


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