LIKE SWIMMERS

A murder mystery set in pandemic-era Virginia, where a young web designer attempts to uncover who shot and killed her brotherand why the murderer decided to use a silver bullet, from the author of Blurry and Discipline.Like Swimmers opens during the Covid summer of 2020, when Richmond-based web designer Mackenzie wakes up to find her younger brother Howie dead in their apartment. An autopsy reveals a startling cause: Howie was killed by a silver bullet.With no help from a police force overwhelmed by protest and plague, Mackenzie turns sleuth and goes on the hunt for an answer to what she believes is a simple question: who murdered Howie?But what seems straightforward to her isn`t to anyone else. Howie`s deadbeat friends aren`t even sure Howie was murdered: what if he just killed himself? Undeterred, Mackenzie suspects the cryptic Isa, who Howie was running errands for before his death. Was she Howie`s lover? Or just the focus of Howie`s unrelenting obsession? Mackenzie will follow all the threadsfrom Howie`s time as a courier during the worst of Covid to the sleazy machinations of Isa`s professor husbandall the way to a startling and brutal conclusion.Dash Shaw, fresh off the acclaimed Blurry, delivers a fast-paced mystery in lush painted color that delves into loss, calamity, and whether we ever really know the people we love.