John Swan Take a big risk. Expect a big reward. Just don't, John Swan advises, get your hopes too high. Because in the world of noir you're going to be sorely disappointed. He has also appeared in a collection of linked mystery stories called The Rouge Murders .
Swan lives and works under a pseudonym in Hamilton.
Mix them together and let them simmer over high heat. That's a sure recipe for blackened fiction. Born under the slag heaps of Hamilton, Matthew now lives in Ottawa. His fiction has appeared all over the world - well, Canada, the US, the UK and Australia. An earlier collection of his stories, Fresh Meat , appeared in 1997.