“You may beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride in one of the most propulsive and pitch-perfect crime novels of recent memory. With prose as smooth as an Elvin Hayes jumper, Sweet Thing is not only an authoritative mystery, but also an elegantly tragic character study, revealing that the line between junkies and judges, larcenists and lawmen, can be extraordinarily thin. David Swinson is at the apex of his craft here, writing detective fiction that is vital, gritty, and human…noir that transcends the bricklayer procedurals to get at the dark night of his characters’ souls.”
–Peter Farris, author of Last Call for the Living and The Devil Himself