The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black

The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black

Benjamin Black's literary crime novels, set in 1950s Dublin, inspired the major TV series: Quirke starring Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon and written by Andrew Davies. Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man whom he once admired is dying, while the daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept him as her father. When an old acquaintance approaches him about his wife’s apparent suicide, Quirke recognizes trouble but, as always, trouble is something he cannot resist. ‘Absorbing, atmospheric and moving. More please’ – Guardian ‘Drug addiction, morbid sexual obsession, blackmail and murder, as well as prose as crisp as a winter’s morning by the Liffey . . . Quirke is human enough to swell the hardest of hearts’ – GQ ‘A romp of a read, a compelling fix’ – Scotsman The Silver Swan is the second in the Quirke Mysteries. Continue the spellbinding crime series with Elegy for April.

Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, who was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His novels have won numerous awards, including the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea. Black has written several novels starring Quirke, the surly but brilliant pathologist. The Quirke novels were adapted into a major BBC TV series starring Gabriel Byrne.

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ISBN 13	9781447237327
ISBN 10	1447237323
Title	The Silver Swan
Author	Benjamin Black
Series	Quirke Mysteries
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2013-08-15
Number of pages	368
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