Nantucket · Book 4
Swan Song
- Published
- 1 January 2024
- Pages
- 375
- ISBN-13
- 9780316258876
- Type
- novel
About this book
Swan Song, published in 2024 at 375 pages, follows The Perfect Couple as the fourth and, per Elin Hilderbrand's own account, final entry in the informally linked Nantucket series built around police chief Ed Kapenash's investigations. Billed as her last Nantucket-set novel as she shifts toward The Academy, it brings back characters from across Hilderbrand's earlier Nantucket books for a mansion fire and a missing concierge on the eve of Kapenash's retirement.
Its place in Nantucket
Swan Song is book 4 in the Nantucket series. It follows The Perfect Couple. See the full Nantucket reading order.
Four of Elin Hilderbrand's standalone-in-plot novels -- spanning sixteen years of her career -- are linked by the recurring figure of Ed Kapenash, Nantucket's police chief, who investigates a death or disappearance at the center of each book. A Summer Affair (2008) centers on a charity-gala affair that spins out of control; The Castaways (2009) follows a tight circle of island couples after one pair drowns in a sailing accident Kapenash can't quite close the book on; The Perfect Couple (2018) turns a Nantucket…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316258876