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USA Today bestselling and ITW Thriller Award–winning author of The Serial Killer's Wife, The Killing Room, Man of Wax, and several other novels. He created the term "hint fiction" and edited Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer. ...more

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	The Serial Killer's Wife 3.94 avg rating — 3,778 ratings — published 2011 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Shelter (Holly Lin, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 1,407 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Killing Room 4.14 avg rating — 880 ratings — published 2023 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man of Wax (Man of Wax Trilogy #1) 3.86 avg rating — 833 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer by Robert Swartwood (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Madeline Mora-Summonte (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.82 avg rating — 774 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bullet Rain 4.14 avg rating — 655 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Calling 3.81 avg rating — 587 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Legion (Man of Wax Trilogy #0: Prequel) 3.97 avg rating — 541 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bullet Country (Nova Bartkowski) 4.44 avg rating — 399 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Temple 4.06 avg rating — 333 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Robert answered Jkane's question: For the most part, other than if I'm on vacation, or on an airplane, I use Audible, rather than my kindle or a paperbook. I found The Killing Room this week, and devoured it in two days. I've now moved on to Enemy of the State. In looking at your other books, the one that I'd most want to read next is Temple, but it is not on Audible. Are there any plans to have that made into an audiobook? Thanks for checking out TKR and EOTS! As for Temple, there are no immediate plans to have that one made into an audiobook, but I hope to have it — along with the rest of my backlist — made available in audio at some point in the future.
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Robert made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Please review series from my title topic " Hello, It looks like it happened again to my book THE KILLING ROOM, with this title now linked to it again: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... If ...more "
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