WINNER: 2025 Colorado Book Award (Thriller) Finalist, 2025 WILLA Award (Thriller) 2025 Best of Denver, Best Nationally Published Novel - Westword 2024 Best Mystery/Thriller - Indie Author Project Colorado Public Radio 2024 Books We Love
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookseller and The Glass Forest, and 2025 Indie Author of the Year, comes a new novel of psychological suspense!
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It's 1979, and 14-year-old Suzanne, who should be enjoying her first year at Denver East High, is instead reckoning with the aftermath of her mother Alex's shooting death during a robbery at Alex's store, Zoe's Records. A clairvoyant since childhood, Suzanne is unsurprised when Alex's ghost appears. But when Alex raises alarm bells about Suzanne's father's new girlfriend, what Suzanne can't foresee is the lifelong repercussions as she heeds Alex's warning.
In 2004, Suzanne returns to Denver with her husband and their children, a defiant teenage daughter and a 9-year-old son with unspecified cognitive disabilities. When the opportunity arises to turn the old Zoe's Records space into a gallery, Suzanne jumps at the chance. While ecstatic to honor Alex's legacy, Suzanne nonetheless can't shake the sensation that she's being watched-while at the same time tackling a clandestine investigation of her own, searching for genetic clues into her family's hidden past that might lead to a diagnosis for her son.
What if she knows too little? What if she discovers too much?
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
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ISBN-13
979-8-9908074-2-6 (9798990807426)
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Named 2025 Indie Author of the Year by the Indie Author Project, Cynthia Swanson is the author of three novels of psychological suspense. Cynthia's debut novel, The Bookseller, was a New York Times bestseller, an Indie Next selection, the winner of the 2016 WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction, and is slated to be a motion picture produced by Julia Roberts. The Bookseller was also nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award and the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Award. The Bookseller is translated into 18 languages. Cynthia's second novel, The Glass Forest, was a CAL Award finalist, a USA Today bestseller, has been noted in Forbes as being one of "Five Novels With a Remarkably Strong Sense of Place" and is translated into 7 languages. Her third novel, Anyone But Her, won the 2025 Colorado Book Award (Thriller), was a finalist for the 2025 WILLA Literary Award (Mystery/Thriller), and was named 2024 Best Mystery/Thriller by the Indie Author Project. Cynthia is also the editor of the anthology Denver Noir, which features dark, morally ambiguous stories set in and around Denver, Colorado, written by 14 notable literary and mystery authors. Denver Noir received the 2023 Colorado Book Award (Anthology). She lives with her family in Denver.
