Swann's Last Song

Name: Swann's Last Song
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Charles Salzberg
ISBN: 9798765098844

Author: Charles Salzberg

Series: Henry Swann Mystery #1

Narrator: Steve Marvel

Unabridged: 6 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/18/2023

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled, Police Procedural

Synopsis

Skip tracer Henry Swann cares little about anything but money, so when a beautiful Upper East Side woman shows up in his office and hires him to find her missing husband, he smiles and takes the cash. But when this seemingly simple missing-person case turns into homicide, Swann finds himself trapped in a complex web of connections and multiple identities that takes him out of New York City and across two continents.

About Charles Salzberg

A celebrated and popular creative writing teacher, Charles Salzberg has been a visiting professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and has taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College, the Writer's Voice and the New York Writers Workshop, where he is a founding member. He is a consulting editor at the webzine Ducts.org and co-host, with Jonathan Kravetz, of the reading series, Trumpet Fiction, at KGB in New York City. His freelance work has appeared in such publications as Esquire, New York magazine, GQ, Elle, Redbook, Ladies' Home Journal, the New York Times arts and leisure section, the New York Times Book Review and the Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charles on October 30, 2008

Okay, it's my book. But if I didn't think it was pretty good, I wouldn't have read it. Hope you do, too.......more

Goodreads review by Ann on March 10, 2009

Henry Swann is just an ordinary skip tracer in New York, sometimes paid in food stamps; that is, when he is paid at all. Then SHE walked in. Beautiful, poised Sally Janus hired Swann to locate her missing husband. It seemed like a simple enough case, but Harry Janus was involved in something siniste......more

Goodreads review by David on July 02, 2017

Before even picking up Charles Salzberg's Swann's Last Song (Down & Out Books), it was going to be a tough battle in that I have an outrageously high bar for PI books. This is mostly due to the work that that Stephen J. Cannell, Roy Huggins, Meta Rosenberg, and James Garner did on the creation o......more

Goodreads review by Erica on February 16, 2016

Oh, my, what a trip! Author Charles Salzberg takes the reader from New York City to Los Angeles, California, to across the border to Mexico to Acapulco and then on a flight to Berlin, Germany--all on a quest to solve the mystery of a missing husband's whereabouts. Salzberg's hero, Detective Henry Sw......more

Goodreads review by Russ on January 07, 2020

Thumbs up for Swann's Last Song, the mystery novel written by Charles Salzberg. Swann is not a private eye, exactly, but a down on his luck NYC skip tracer, who gets dragged into a case that takes him all over the world. I loved Swann's voice, and totally understood his worldview all along. You coul......more