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USA Today bestselling and ITW Thriller Award–winning author of The Serial Killer's Wife, The Killing Room, Man of Wax, and several other novels. He created the term "hint fiction" and edited Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer. ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 14,087 ratings · 1,405 reviews · 62 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Serial Killer's Wife 3.94 avg rating — 3,356 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Shelter (Holly Lin, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 1,327 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man of Wax (Man of Wax Trilogy #1) 3.82 avg rating — 752 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer by Robert Swartwood (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Madeline Mora-Summonte (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.84 avg rating — 735 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bullet Rain 4.15 avg rating — 613 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Calling 3.81 avg rating — 576 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Killing Room 4.18 avg rating — 521 ratings — published 2023 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Legion (Man of Wax Trilogy #0: Prequel) 3.97 avg rating — 520 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bullet Country (Nova Bartkowski) 4.47 avg rating — 306 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abducted 3.77 avg rating — 335 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Robert Swartwood

Holly Lin/Nova Bartkowski Thrillers (4 books)
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Man of Wax Trilogy (4 books)
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Killing Room (2 books)
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“moment I wonder whether or not it’s real. My other siblings have all noticed me by now, but none have waved or nodded or even given me the finger, though I guess in this setting flashing the bird wouldn’t be proper funereal etiquette.”
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“The thing about life, about existence, is that none of it is explainable. Things happen because they can.”
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“The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.”
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“There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.”
― Cormac McCarthy

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