David Swinson

Frank Marr

1 - The Second Girl (Jun-2016)
2 - Crime Song (May-2017)
3 - Trigger (Feb-2019)

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  A Detailed Man
  

  • Dec-2011
  • / Police Procedural
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  A relentless tour of DCs most crime-ridden streets, with many beautifully written surprises, and darker than the deepest noir. ~Madison Smartt BellDavid Swinson's Ezra Simeon has the dry wit of Chandler's Marlowe and the stylish, hard-won bitterness ...

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  The Second Girl
  

  • Jun-2016
  • / Private Investigator
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  Frank Marr - 1
  

  He's a good detective...with a bad habit. Frank Marr knows crime in Washington, DC. A decorated former police detective, he retired early and now ekes a living as a private eye for a defense attorney. Frank Marr may be the best investigator the ci...

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  Crime Song
  

  • May-2017
  • / Private Investigator
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  Frank Marr - 2
  

  Frank Marr was a good cop with a bad habit, until his burgeoning addictions to alcohol and cocaine forced him into retirement from the DC police. Now barely eking out a living as a private investigator, he agrees to take on a family case: a favor for...

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  Trigger
  

  • Feb-2019
  • / Police Procedural
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  Frank Marr - 3
  

  Frank Marr was a good cop, until his burgeoning addictions to alcohol and cocaine forced him into retirement from the D.C. Metro police. Now, he's barely eking out a living as a private investigator for a defense attorney--also Frank's ex-girlfriend....

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  City on the Edge
  

  • May-2021
  • / Mystery
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  An American teen living abroad discovers the truth about himself and his family in this thrilling novel from "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" (New York Times Book Review).1972, Beirut, Lebanon. Young American Matthew lives with his f...

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  Sweet Thing
  

  • Nov-2023
  • / Police Procedural
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  In this DC-set standalone from "one of the best dialogue hounds in the business" (New York Times Book Review), Homicide Detective Alex Blum must answer a terrible question: 'how far would you go to love the wrong woman?' In a red brick house on a tre...

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  From the Dust
  

  • Apr-2026
  • / Police Procedural
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  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 a series of murders which get dangerously personal. Graham Sanderson thought he’d left it a...

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