About the Author

NANCY SWING writes mysteries with twisty plots, unconventional characters and unusual settings. Each is the fruit of her remarkable life as an international consultant working in countries as diverse as Guyana, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Laos and Somalia. Her first novel, Malice on the Mekong, featured a chocoholic Hindu grandmother investigating how a controversial foreign hostess came to drown in the great river of Southeast Asia. With Child's Play, Nancy returns to her West Virginia roots to unravel a tangle of lives lived and lost in columned mansions and dusty trailer parks, private lakes and public pools, pristine glens and scarred mountains.