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Henry Holt and Co.
April 2008
On Sale: April 8, 2008
304 pages
ISBN: 0805081534
EAN: 9780805081534
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Thriller Crime
Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling
Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke, the
irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. His
beloved Sarah is dead, his surrogate father lies in a
convent hospital paralyzed by a devastating stroke, and
Phoebe, Quirke’s long-denied daughter, has grown
increasingly withdrawn and isolated.
With much to regret from his last inquisitive foray, Quirke
ought to know better than to let his curiosity get the best
of him. Yet when an almost forgotten acquaintance comes to
him about his beautiful young wife’s apparent suicide,
Quirke’s “old itch to cut into the quick of things, to
delve into the dark of what was hidden” is roused again. As
he begins to probe further into the shadowy circumstances
of Deirdre Hunt’s death, he discovers many things that
might better have remained hidden, as well as grave danger
to those
he loves.
Haunting, masterfully written, and utterly mesmerizing in
its nuance, The Silver Swan fully lives up to the promise
of Christine Falls and firmly establishes Benjamin Black
(a.k.a. John Banville) among the greatest of crime writers.
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