Corrine "Corrie" Swanson is a female character that first appears in Still Life With Crows. She is the main character in the novel White Fire.
Appearance
Corrie is described as of the latest book being twenty-two years old. She used to dress as a goth/punk, and would dye her hair black with purple streaks. She has light skin, and originally had blond hair. She is of average height.
Biography
Corrie Swanson grew up in Medicine Creek, Kansas, the only child of Jack and Duette Swanson. Her parents divorced when she was young, and Corrie was left to live with her mother, a chain-smoking alcoholic cocktail waitress who insisted that Corrie's father was a worthless deadbeat and a womanizer who couldn't keep a job. Despite her mother's claims, Corrie's memories of her father were happy ones, yet she still spent the greater part of her young life feeling abandoned by him.
At the age of 18, Corrie found herself in the middle of the events of Still Life with Crows, joining Special Agent Pendergast in the investigation of a series of bizarre murders in her hometown. Pendergast, recognizing that Corrie was wasting away in Medicine Creek, later established a $25,000 educational trust in her name and arranged for her to spend her senior year at Phillips Exeter Academy, a private boarding school in New Hampshire.
Corrie reunited with her father when she was 22, during the events of Two Graves. Finding him missing from his Pennsylvania home, she tracked him to his old fishing cabin in rural western New Jersey. Jack was on the run from the police. His coworkers at the auto dealership where he worked had framed him for a robbery, and he fled.