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.
Key facts about Swan Song
Swan Song is a novel by Elin Hilderbrand. Readers have had it since 2024. It runs to 375 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Swan Song. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780316258876 to find the main one.
Swan Song is book 4 of 4 in the Nantucket series. The series has 4 published books. However, the series starts with A Summer Affair (2008).
Additionally, Elin Hilderbrand writes Winter Street, Paradise and The Academy as separate series. Those series sit on our women's fiction and young adult fiction shelves. Meanwhile, The Academy is the latest published Elin Hilderbrand book on file, from 16 September 2025.
About Elin Hilderbrand
Elin Hilderbrand is an American novelist known as the reigning voice of Nantucket fiction, having set the great majority of her nearly thirty books on the Massachusetts island where she has lived since the early 1990s. See every Elin Hilderbrand book in order.
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