Anyone But Her

by Cynthia Swanson

Overview

WINNER: 2025 Colorado Book Award (Thriller) Finalist, 2025 WILLA Award (Thriller) 2025 Best of Denver, Best Nationally Published Novel - Westword 2024 Best Mystery/Thriller - Indie Author Project Colorado Public Radio 2024 Books We Love

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookseller and The Glass Forest, and 2025 Indie Author of the Year, comes a new novel of psychological suspense!

KNOWLEDGE HAS A PRICE...

It's 1979, and 14-year-old Suzanne, who should be enjoying her first year at Denver East High, is instead reckoning with the aftermath of her mother Alex's shooting death during a robbery at Alex's store, Zoe's Records. A clairvoyant since childhood, Suzanne is unsurprised when Alex's ghost appears. But when Alex raises alarm bells about Suzanne's father's new girlfriend, what Suzanne can't foresee is the lifelong repercussions as she heeds Alex's warning.

In 2004, Suzanne returns to Denver with her husband and their children, a defiant teenage daughter and a 9-year-old son with unspecified cognitive disabilities. When the opportunity arises to turn the old Zoe's Records space into a gallery, Suzanne jumps at the chance. While ecstatic to honor Alex's legacy, Suzanne nonetheless can't shake the sensation that she's being watched-while at the same time tackling a clandestine investigation of her own, searching for genetic clues into her family's hidden past that might lead to a diagnosis for her son.

What if she knows too little? What if she discovers too much?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798990807426
Publisher:	Columbine York
Publication date:	09/17/2024
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Cynthia Swanson writes psychological suspense, often using historical settings. Cynthia's debut novel, The Bookseller, was a New York Times bestseller, an Indie Next selection, and the winner of the WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction. The Bookseller has been translated into eighteen languages. Cynthia's second novel, The Glass Forest, was a USA Today bestseller and has been translated into seven languages. Cynthia is the editor of the Colorado Book Award winning anthology Denver Noir, part of Akashic Books' celebrated Noir series. Cynthia was named 2025 Indie Author of the Year by the Indie Author Project. She lives with her family in Denver. Find Cynthia online at www.cynthiaswansonauthor.com and follow her on Substack (The What If Journal), Bluesky (cynswanauthor), Instagram (cynswanauthor), and Facebook (Cynthia Swanson Author).