Peter Swanson

{{Short description|American novelist (born 1968)}}

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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|05|26}}

|birth_place = Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.

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|spouse = Charlene Sawyer

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Peter Swanson (born May 26, 1968) is an American author, best known for his psychological suspense novels The Kind Worth Killing and Her Every Fear.{{cite web | last=Swanson | first=Peter | title=Peter Swanson | website=HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher | date=2017-12-01 | url=https://www.harpercollins.com/author/ | access-date=2020-05-05}}

His ninth novel, The Kind Worth Saving, a sequel to The Kind Worth Killing, was published in March 2023.{{cite web |url=https://www.peter-swanson.com/ |title=Home |website=peter-swanson.com}} His most recent novel, A Talent for Murder, appeared in June 2024.

Swanson wrote fiction for ten years before finding an agent who read one of Swanson's short stories online, leading to the eventual publication of his debut novel The Girl With a Clock for a Heart.{{cite web |last1=Copperthwaite |first1=Barbara |title=Blood Type: Peter Swanson |url=https://www.barbaracopperthwaite.com/peter-swanson |website=Barbara Copperthwaite CRIME AUTHOR |accessdate=5 May 2020}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} He has also written short stories and poetry.{{cite web | last=Swanson | first=Peter | title=Twin Bill | website=The Atlantic | date=2011-07-05 | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/08/twin-bill/308566/ | access-date=2020-05-05}}