Nine Lives

Peter Swanson is back - with a chilling and fiendish puzzle of novel, the crime novel everyone will be talking about...

'Deliciously ingenious.' - Daily Mail

'Keeps you guessing right to the end.' - Peter May

'Smartly entertaining.' - Washington Post

'So beautifully written, so gripping, so perfect.' - Sophie Hannah

If you're on the list you're marked for death.

The envelope is unremarkable. There is no return address. It contains a single, folded, sheet of white paper.

The envelope drops through the mail slot like any other piece of post. But for the nine complete strangers who receive it - each of them recognising just one name, their own, on the enclosed list - it will be the most life altering letter they ever receive. It could also be the last, as one by one, they start to meet their end.

But why?