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Set in 1999, Swinson, a former DC cop, offers a look back at a rougher, grittier, bygone DC replete with seedy strip clubs, pagers beeping, and Y2K anxiety. It’s here we’re taken inside sting operations, fluorescent-tinged interrogation chambers, and rooms that have seen irreversible mistakes.
David Swinson is the author of the critically acclaimed Frank Marr trilogy, The Second Girl, Crime Song and Trigger. He is also the author of City on the Edge. He began his career at the height of the punk rock movement in the early 1980s.
“David Swinson is one of the most exciting new voices to come along in crime fiction in this decade, and Crime Song is Exhibit A of his remarkable talent. Swinson’s writing is heartfelt, powerful, and authentic, and Frank Marr is as fully rendered as any detective in recent memory.”
David Swinson is the author of THE SECOND GIRL, CRIME SONG, TRIGGER and City on the Edge, by Mulholland Books/Little, Brown& Co. He is a retired DC police detective, and a former alternative and punk rock promoter in Long Beach, CA in the eighties.
May 25, 2021 · Over the course of one year, 1972, Graham’s life will utterly change. Two men are murdered, his parent’s marriage disintegrates, and Graham, along with his two ex-pat friends, run afoul of forces they cannot understand. The City on the Edge is elegiac, atmospheric, and utterly authentic.
Jun 7, 2016 · David Swinson’s engaging detective novel, The Second Girl, opens as Frankie has just crashed his way into another stash house. In a futile search for drugs, he tears the place apart. Then he discovers a padlocked door that seems promising.
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Nov 7, 2023 · David Swinson’s stiletto-sharp prose and breakneck pacing is instantly addictive, and his intimate understanding of police work—and how it wears down a soul—shines through on every page. Emotionally raw and relentless, this is a modern hardboiled masterpiece.”―
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Nov 7, 2023 · David Swinson is a retired police detective from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, having been assigned to Major Crimes. Swinson is the author of the critically acclaimed Frank Marr Trilogy - The Second Girl , Crime Song and Trigger , and the standalone City on the Edge .
Complete order of David Swinson books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
David Swinson is a retired police detective from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, having been assigned to Major Crimes. Swinson is the author of the critically acclaimed Frank Marr Trilogy – The Second Girl, Crime Song and Trigger, and the standalone City on the Edge.
