51b2wTfiD L. SL160  The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black   ReviewThe Silver Swan by Benjamin Black

This is the second novel by John Banville writing as Benjamin Black, and the second outing for the pathologist Quirke, a new star of the whodunit, here caught up in a ‘grimy suburban melodrama’ of murder, adultery, revenge, sex, drugs and sadomasochism. Freed from the Booker judges’ gaze, Banville indulges a passion for the smoky private-dick flick, raiding its clichés and imagery: Quirke is an orphan, widower, alcoholic.

Review: The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black | Books | The Observer.

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