Swans A Swimming (short story)

Name: Swans A Swimming (short story)
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Stuart MacBride
ISBN: 9780007459346

Author: Stuart MacBride

Series: Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at Christmas #7

Narrator: Ian Hanmore

Unabridged: 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Hemlock Press

Published: 12/07/2011

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Suspense & Thriller, Short Stories, Humorous Fiction, Hard-boiled

Synopsis

Seventh story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season James Kirkhill thinks he has the best job in the world: coaching the girls’ swimming team. But he’s about to get into some very deep water…

About Stuart MacBride

Stuart MacBride is the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae and Ash Henderson novels. His work has won several prizes and in 2015 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Dundee University. Stuart lives in the north-east of Scotland with his wife Fiona, cats Grendel, Onion and Beetroot, and other assorted animals.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Siobhan on December 24, 2018

It is difficult to rate each individual Twelve Days of Winter story, so the following is a review of all twelve stories when read back-to-back. I’ve had Stuart MacBride’s Twelve Days of Winter sitting on my Kindle for a couple of years now, and each year around Christmas I tell myself to dive in and......more

Goodreads review by David on October 11, 2020

A dark little short story over my morning coffee......more

Goodreads review by Sunsy on December 17, 2013

So eine klitzekleine Kurzgeschichte ist perfekt für die Mittagspause. Und diese hier hat es in sich. Furchtbar!......more

Quotes

Praise for Stuart MacBride: ‘Fierce, unflinching and shot through with the blackest of humour; this is crime fiction of the highest order’Mark Billingham ‘Some of the grittiest crime-writing in the field’Independent ‘Admirers of tough, modern crime novels will be in seventh heaven – or should that be hell?’Express ‘Ferocious and funny, this is Tartan Noir at its best’Val McDermid ‘Hard-hitting prose with a bone-dry humour and characters you can genuinely believe in, Stuart MacBride’s novels are a real treat’Simon Kernick