Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson

Before She Knew Him

by Peter Swanson

Available on Amazon

Rating (1-5) 📘📘📘📘📘
Genre - Psychological Thrillers, Psychological Fiction, Murder, Thrillers
Format - Hard Cover
Pages -

*Amazon Blurb*

Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Hen (short for Henrietta) is an illustrator and works out of a studio nearby, and has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. Finally, she’s found some stability and peace.
But when they meet the neighbors next door, that calm begins to erode as she spots a familiar object displayed on the husband’s office shelf. The sports trophy looks exactly like one that went missing from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago. Hen knows because she’s long had a fascination with this unsolved murder—an obsession she doesn’t talk about anymore, but can’t fully shake either.
Could her neighbor, Matthew, be a killer? Or is this the beginning of another psychotic episode like the one she suffered back in college, when she became so consumed with proving a fellow student guilty that she ended up hurting a classmate?
The more Hen observes Matthew, the more she suspects he’s planning something truly terrifying. Yet no one will believe her. Then one night, when she comes face to face with Matthew in a dark parking lot, she realizes that he knows she’s been watching him, that she’s really on to him. And that this is the beginning of a horrifying nightmare she may not live to escape. . .

*My Review* 

This book...WOW!! Normally you spend at least half the book trying to figure out who the killer is. This book starts off by telling you who did it right away. Well, if you know who did it, then what's the point of reading any further? Trust me, you'll want too.

Hen and her neighbor, Matthew, end up having a deep relationship that is unlike any other. Is she really crazy or is Matthew telling her the truth about all the horrible things he's done. Is Matthew the bad guy, or is he a good guy helping rid the world of bad people?

Since I already knew who the killer was, I figured it was only a matter of time before the police were able to figure it out and then the book would end. Well, that's kind of what happens, but there's such a major twist that I had not expected. It made me think back about everything I'd just read and wondering how it was possible.

If you're looking for a a really suspenseful book, look no further.