TOM SWYERS
AUTHOR
Tom Swyers is an attorney, hearing officer, former judge, and an award-winning author of three standalone novels in the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thrillers Series. He lives with his family in Upstate New York.
Caged to Kill is the second book in the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thriller Series and is set to be released on April 2, 2019. Convicted cop-killer Phillip Dawkins is running from the truth and thirty years of solitary confinement when he shows up at David Thompson’s door. Thompson must free Dawkins from his past before a killing beast is unleashed. But he may be too late . . .
The Killdeer Connection is the standalone first book in the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thriller Series. David Thompson is on the run for a murder he didn’t commit. The book was a 2017 winner in Amazon’s international writing competition for Kindle Books . . .
Saving Babe Ruth is the standalone prequel to the Lawyer David Thompson Legal Thriller Series. David Thompson goes to war against a greedy travel baseball promoter and risks it all when he tries to save kids’ baseball for the sandlot kids in town. Based upon a true story and with a foreword written by Babe Ruth’s grandson, the novel was the recipient of two Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in 2015 . . .
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Christmas Day Baseball Game During Civil War Creates Mystery
On Christmas day during the Civil War in 1862, a few New York regiments stationed in Hilton Head, South Carolina played a baseball game and gave birth to a baseball mystery. One of the players that day was a soldier named Abraham Mills. According to Gunther Barth,...
Chasing Shadows with Saving Babe Ruth
I've been chasing shadows with my upcoming novel, Saving Babe Ruth. While I can always step on my shadow’s feet, my shadow inevitably slips away, forever one step beyond my grasp. That’s what it feels like to be writing a novel, at least to me. I tend to think I’m a...
Our Memories of President John F. Kennedy Endure Today
Today is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. I was four years old on November 22, 1963 when Lee Harvey Oswald shot his rifle and killed the President. The events of that day are one of my earliest memories. I recall watching our...