My USA Today bestselling second novel, The Glass Forest (Simon & Schuster, 2018), features an evocative, eerie setting and three strong, unique female main characters.

It’s autumn, 1960 and Angie Glass, 21 years old, is living idyllically in her Wisconsin hometown. She and her husband Paul are besotted with each other and their infant son, PJ. But the idyll ends when Angie answers a phone call from Paul’s 17-year-old niece, Ruby, who says her father, Paul’s brother Henry, has committed suicide, and her mother, Silja, is missing.

 Angie insists she and PJ accompany Paul to the other Glasses’ home in suburban Stonekill, New York to be there for Ruby and to figure out what happened. Once there, Angie realizes how little she knows about Paul’s family and his past. What made Henry kill himself? Why is Ruby so reticent? And most important: where is Silja?

The Glass Forest has been translated into 7 languages. Read an excerpt here. A reading group guide is here.

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• Bookshop.org

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  • The Tattered Cover

  • The Bookies

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• Target

• Books A Million

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National Media and Online Reviews

• The Glass Forest has over 2,500 4-star and 5-star reviews on Goodreads!

• Forbes: “Three very different women find their lives intersecting in this captivating story.” (“Travel in Your Imagination: 5 Novels with a Remarkably Strong Sense of Place” - also featuring works by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Stephen King, Joe DeRouen, and Sue Grafton.)

• Library Journal (starred review): [A] triumph. Swanson is a name to be considered among the likes of Gillian Flynn, Chris Pavone, and Laura Lippman."

• Publishers Weekly (starred review): "Swanson uses exquisitely rendered characters and an intricately woven plot to explore the cultural and political fallout of WWII, as well as the changing role and limited rights of women in the mid-20th century. This intoxicating slow burn builds to a conclusion rife with shocking reveals."

• RT Book Reviews: "A mixture of family saga and mystery, this novel delivers on both fronts."

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