Every Vow You Break

by Peter Swanson

Margaret Atwood (for a quote I didn’t use, but thought of many times), Danielle Bartlett, Angus Cargill, Caspian Dennis, Bianca Flores, Joel Gotler, John Grindrod, Kaitlin Harri, David Headley, Sara Henry, David Highfill, Tessa James, Emily Langner (for telling me the Margaret Atwood quote), Ira Levin, Kristen Pini, Sophie Portas, Josh Smith, Nat Sobel, Virginia Stanley, Gordon Sumner, Sandy Violette, Judith Weber, Ben Wheatley, Dave Woodhouse, Adia Wright, and Charlene Sawyer.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Peter Swanson lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts. His novels include The Girl With a Clock for a Heart, nominated for an LA Times book award, The Kind Worth Killing, a Richard and Judy pick and the iBooks store’s thriller of the year in 2015, and, most recently, Rules for Perfect Murders, also a Richard and Judy pick in 2020.

  ALSO BY PETER SWANSON

  RULES FOR PERFECT MURDERS

  BEFORE SHE KNEW HIM

  ALL THE BEAUTIFUL LIES

  HER EVERY FEAR

  THE KIND WORTH KILLING

  THE GIRL WITH A CLOCK FOR A HEART

  COPYRIGHT

  First published in the UK in 2021

  by Faber & Faber Limited

  Bloomsbury House

  74–77 Great Russell Street

  London WC1B 3DA

  First published in the USA in 2021

  by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

  195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007

  This ebook edition first published in 2021

  All rights reserved

  © Peter Swanson, 2021

  Cover design by Dominic Forbes

  The right of Peter Swanson to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  This is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental

  This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly

  ISBN 978–0–571–35853–3