Swanson, Cynthia: - Cynthia Swanson writes literary suspense, often using historical settings. Her debut novel, The Bookseller, was a New York Times best seller, an Indie Next selection, and winner of the 2016 WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction. Swansons second novel, the USA Today best seller The Glass Forest, was noted in Forbes as being one of Five Novels with a Remarkably Strong Sense of Place. She lives with her family in Denver. Find her at cynthiaswansonauthor.com.