Cynthia Swanson

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, the winner of the 2016 WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction, and is slated to be a motion picture produced by Julia Roberts. The Bookseller was also nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award and the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Award. The Bookseller has been translated into eighteen languages. Cynthia's second novel, The Glass Forest, was a USA Today bestseller, has been noted in Forbes as being one of "Five Novels With a Remarkably Strong Sense of Place," and has been translated into seven languages.

Cynthia is the editor of the anthology Denver Noir, which features dark, morally ambiguous stories set in and around Denver, Colorado, written by fourteen notable literary and mystery authors. Denver Noir received the 2023 Colorado Book Award (Anthology).

Cynthia lives with her family in Denver.