A review by kalebprice
The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson

3.0

This is the second lily Kintner/Harry Kimball book.

Harry is hired by Joan investigate her cheating husband. She is a former student from the year he was a high school English teacher. He follows the husband and hornilly follows the mistress to the house they meet at and is outside when he hears gunshots. The husband shot the mistress then himself.

Except actually, in part 2 we learn it was actually Joan’s friend Richard who killed the other two and escaped out the back door. Richard and Joan killed his cousin by pushing him off a pier as teenagers then convinced another boy to shoot a girl at school. Kimball figured out Joan and Richard's past crimes so Richard puts a bomb in kimball’s office. Kimball is hospitalized and Richard dies.

Lily wants revenge so she uses kimball’s notes to piece it all together and hunt down and kill Joan in part 3.

Like the other book, this one relies on Kimball and other characters being in exactly the right spot at exactly the right time. He and Lily also piece together past events extremely quickly and on little evidence. But if that’s taken as a given in these books, then they’re fine. I rated this one lower than the last one because i enjoy lily’s chapters, but i find kimball boring.