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The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson
4.0

In this second book in the Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner series, Henry and Lily have struck up a close, if unusual friendship. It is Lily that Henry turns to when he is perplexed by one of his cases - an ex-student from his year as a high school teacher has hired him to prove her husband is having an affair; Henry subsequently finds the two of them dead in what is apparently a murder-cum-suicide. It seems like an open and shut case but nothing is ever quite open and shut with Henry and Lily. The book alternates between the present where Henry is investigating what happened to Joan Grieve's husband Richard, and the past, when Henry was Joan's high school English teacher and a student in the class was shot by another student.