First Love is Deadly.What if your college sweetheart, the girl of your dreams, suddenly disappeared?Twenty years later she's back, she's in trouble and she says you are the only one who can help her . . .'Very hard not to read in one sitting.' Alison Flood, Observer'A twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride.' Dennis Lehane'Takes your breath away . . . a plot that twists like a corkscrew.' Daily Mail'A well-plotted, enjoyably twisty debut.' Sunday Times

Peter Swanson has won awards in poetry from The Lyric and Yankee Magazine, and is currently completing a sonnet sequence on all 53 of Alfred Hitchcock's films. He has earned degrees in Creative Writing, Education, and Literature from Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College. He lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts.