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 ...

A Detailed Man is destined to be categorized as a "police procedural" and David Swinson is destined to be categorized as an ex-cop. He is that. He spent sixteen years detailed to robbery and homicide ...

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 ...

D.C. police Detective David Swinson, honored as the Metropolitan Police Department's Officer of the Year on Nov. 6, was described as one of the best burglary detectives in the Washington area. Swinson ...

“I am not Frank Marr,” says David Swinson even as he does a not-bad impersonation of the protagonist of his new cop thriller, The Second Girl. It’s true that Swinson isn’t exactly the Marr of my ...

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 ...