A chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction\u2019s most ingenious murders.<\/p>\n
Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre\u2019s most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack\u2014which he titled \u201cEight Perfect Murders\u201d\u2014chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie\u2019s A. B. C. Murders<\/em>, Patricia Highsmith\u2019s Strangers on a Train<\/em>, Ira Levin\u2019s Death Trap<\/em>, A. A. Milne’s Red House Mystery<\/em>, Anthony Berkeley Cox’s Malice Aforethought<\/em>, James M. Cain’s Double Indemnity<\/em>, John D. Macdonald’s The Drowner<\/em>, and Donna Tartt’s A Secret History<\/em>.<\/p>\n But no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of the Old Devils Bookshop in Boston, when an FBI agent comes knocking on his door one snowy day in February. She\u2019s looking for information about a series of unsolved murders that look eerily similar to the killings on Mal\u2019s old list. And the FBI agent isn\u2019t the only one interested in this bookseller who spends almost every night at home reading. The killer is out there, watching his every move\u2014a diabolical threat who knows way too much about Mal\u2019s personal history, especially the secrets he\u2019s never told anyone, even his recently deceased wife.<\/p>\n To protect himself, Mal begins looking into possible suspects\u2014and sees a killer in everyone around him. But Mal doesn\u2019t count on the investigation leaving a trail of death in its wake. Suddenly, a series of shocking twists leaves more victims dead\u2014and the noose around Mal\u2019s neck grows so tight he might never escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book_status":[],"book_genre":[],"class_list":["post-14119","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/14119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_status?post=14119"},{"taxonomy":"book_genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_genre?post=14119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}