Obsession overrides every choice, every good intention, every thought for Washington, D.C., homicide detective Alexander “Alex” Blum in “Sweet Thing,” David Swinson’s outstandingly gritty sixth novel.

The streets of DC are popular fodder for crime writers: as a city that mixes the heights of political power with the depths of poverty, wily fictional detectives can find themselves mixed up in all ...

Yes, standard police-related topics crop up: forensics, autopsies, the gathering of evidence, the use of search warrants and interrogation. Of course they do. Ezra Simeon, the detailed man of the ...

Set in the final days of 1999, this terrific standalone from Swinson (City on the Edge) finds Washington, D.C., homicide detectives Alexander Blum and Kelly Ryan called to investigate the murder of a ...

This month, Swinson released his second Frank Marr story, called Crime Song. Over rounds of beer and bourbon at the Ear Inn on Spring Street, I had the opportunity to chat with Swinson about his punk ...

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In 1973, 12-year-old Graham Sanderson, the narrator of this outstanding thriller from Swinson (the Frank Marr PI series), moves with his family to Beirut, Lebanon, where his father, a Foreign Service ...