In the gritty seaside town of Quincy, Massachusetts, the killing of a local teenage girl plunges Detective Samantha Star into the trauma of her abduction twenty years before. As clues point to a serial killer obsessed with Surrealism and Greek mythology, Sam must unravel the mystery of her own kidnapping to solve the crime–before her daughter is next. At stake are not just the teenagers’ lives, but also Sam’s identity as a detective and an artist, and a community’s chance at healing.
Swallowtail is at once a twisty thriller with, as Publishers Weekly says, “plenty of nerve-shredding tension,” and the emotional story of a woman’s journey to free herself from the violent trauma of her past.
