PETER SWANSON is the author of The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist; The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger; Her Every Fear; and his most recent, All the Beautiful Lies. His books have been translated into thirty languages, and his stories, poetry, and features have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Atlantic, Measure, The Guardian, The Strand Magazine, and Yankee. A graduate of Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College, he lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife.

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Also by Peter Swanson

• Her Every Fear
• The Kind Worth Killing
• The Girl with a Clock for a Heart

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Swanson, Peter, 1968- author.

Title: All the beautiful lies : a novel / by Peter Swanson.

Description: First edition. | New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]

Identifiers: LCCN 2017024957| ISBN 9780062427052 (hardcover) | ISBN 0062427059 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780062791504 (large print) | ISBN 0062791508 (large print) | ISBN 9780062427076 (ebook) | ISBN 0062427075 (ebook)

Subjects: | GSAFD: Suspense fiction.

Digital Edition APRIL 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-242707-6

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-242705-2

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