David Swinson
@dswinson.bsky.social
Author of The Second Girl, a NYTs and Booklist best crime fiction book of the year, Crime Song, Trigger and Sweet Thing. From the Dust in March 2026.
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
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Very happy to see the anthology I co-edited with Adam Meyer, HOLLYWOOD KILLS, on Oline Cogdill’s Best Anthologies of the Year list (South Florida Sun Sentinel). The novels mentioned are pretty awesome, too! Congrats, all!
The best mystery novels of 2025
2025 was another outstanding year for mystery novels, with standard favorites and debuting authors offering their stories. Here are writer Oline H. Cogdill’s favorites.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Very happy to see the anthology I co-edited with Adam Meyer, HOLLYWOOD KILLS, on Oline Cogdill’s Best Anthologies of the Year list (South Florida Sun Sentinel). The novels mentioned are pretty awesome, too! Congrats, all!
Turkey is in the brine until tomorrow.
November 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Turkey is in the brine until tomorrow.
Finally cleaned up my writing nook. As you can see, I don’t have a desk. I like the laptop on my lap where it belongs.
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Finally cleaned up my writing nook. As you can see, I don’t have a desk. I like the laptop on my lap where it belongs.
If you haven’t read any of my books you should start with this one. It was one of the NYT and Booklist’s best crime fiction books of the year in 2016.
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www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david...
The Second Girl
He's a good detective...with a bad habit. "One of the Year's Best Crime Novels"-The New York Times Book Review, Booklist Frank Marr knows crime in Washingt...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
If you haven’t read any of my books you should start with this one. It was one of the NYT and Booklist’s best crime fiction books of the year in 2016.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david...
This Caturday morning Purrl is engineering my demise as I prepare to install a runner going down stairs.
November 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This Caturday morning Purrl is engineering my demise as I prepare to install a runner going down stairs.
Happy Veterans Day to all who have served. Today, I especially remember my father, picture below from his time in Korea.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Happy Veterans Day to all who have served. Today, I especially remember my father, picture below from his time in Korea.
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Back in June, I gave the keynote address at the American Library Association's Carnegie Awards, and I'm very pleased that @literaryhub.bsky.social has republished the full text of my speech:
In Praise of Librarians in Dangerous Times
Librarians are on the front lines of history and current events, when news and change arrive at a furious clip that only quickens every day. And without libraries, my work would simply not exist. I…
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November 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Back in June, I gave the keynote address at the American Library Association's Carnegie Awards, and I'm very pleased that @literaryhub.bsky.social has republished the full text of my speech:
So many leaves! The price you pay for beautiful trees.
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
So many leaves! The price you pay for beautiful trees.
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October 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Enter the Goodreads giveaway to win an early copy of From the Dust.
Enter the Goodreads giveaway to win an early copy of From the Dust.
Always a great feeling when you get your galleys in the mail.
September 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Always a great feeling when you get your galleys in the mail.
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I’ve been a big @dswinson.bsky.social fan from way back and love his mix of Pelecanos and Michael Connelly style, but this one is more rural and small town but just as great.
September 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I’ve been a big @dswinson.bsky.social fan from way back and love his mix of Pelecanos and Michael Connelly style, but this one is more rural and small town but just as great.
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If you love the song “Me and Bobby McGee” you absolutely must read @elongreen.bsky.social on the life of the woman who inspired the song.
The Unlikely Story of the Secretary Who Inspired One of Music’s Greatest Songs
“Me and Bobby McGee” was originally about a woman—Barbara “Bobbie” McKee. I talked to her.
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September 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
If you love the song “Me and Bobby McGee” you absolutely must read @elongreen.bsky.social on the life of the woman who inspired the song.
Very cool news for all us getting older folks. From the Dust is also being released in Large Print everywhere books are sold. Preorder now.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david...
From the Dust
When a murder occurs in a small town in Upstate New York, retired police detective Graham Sanderson, is drawn back into a vortex of violence, deception, and ...
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September 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Very cool news for all us getting older folks. From the Dust is also being released in Large Print everywhere books are sold. Preorder now.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david...
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You’re going to get a lot of rejections and agents will ignore your emails and there will be naysayers around every corner and you’ll get 1-star reviews that are attacks instead of reviews. None of that matters. Keep going. Stay focused. Put in the work. Don’t quit. Go write.
September 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
You’re going to get a lot of rejections and agents will ignore your emails and there will be naysayers around every corner and you’ll get 1-star reviews that are attacks instead of reviews. None of that matters. Keep going. Stay focused. Put in the work. Don’t quit. Go write.
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Heres the trailer for my new podcast “Deadly Engagement.” The first episode(s) available this week for #Dateline Premium subscribers podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
Introducing: Deadly Engagement
Podcast Episode · Deadly Engagement · S1 Trailer · 2m
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September 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Heres the trailer for my new podcast “Deadly Engagement.” The first episode(s) available this week for #Dateline Premium subscribers podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david...
Hard to believe this will my sixth book with my wonderful publisher, Mulholland Books, and my editor Josh Kendall. You can preorder it everywhere books are sold.
Hard to believe this will my sixth book with my wonderful publisher, Mulholland Books, and my editor Josh Kendall. You can preorder it everywhere books are sold.
From the Dust
When a murder occurs in a small town in Upstate New York, retired police detective Graham Sanderson, is drawn back into a vortex of violence, deception, and ...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david...
Hard to believe this will my sixth book with my wonderful publisher, Mulholland Books, and my editor Josh Kendall. You can preorder it everywhere books are sold.
Hard to believe this will my sixth book with my wonderful publisher, Mulholland Books, and my editor Josh Kendall. You can preorder it everywhere books are sold.
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How anyone watches this and doesn’t automatically think every person around that table is extremely weak and pathetic is beyond me.
Witkoff: "There's only one thing I wish for: that that Nobel committee finally gets its act together and realizes that you are the single finest candidate since that Nobel award was ever talked about."
August 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
How anyone watches this and doesn’t automatically think every person around that table is extremely weak and pathetic is beyond me.