The Silver Swan
Book 2 of Quirke
Language: English
Detective Detective and mystery stories Drowning victims Dublin (Ireland) Fathers and daughters Fiction Fiction - Mystery General Hard-Boiled Historical Literary Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - General Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled Mystery & Detective - Historical Mystery And Suspense Fiction Mystery fiction Pathologists Pathology Suicide victims Suspense
Publisher: Picador
Published: Feb 3, 2009
Description:
SUMMARY: It has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world to an irascible Dublin pathologist named Quirke. Quirke's beloved Sarah has died, his surrogate father lies paralyzed by a stroke, and he’s been sober for half a year. When a near-forgotten acquaintance asks him to cover up his beautiful young wife’s apparent suicide, Quirke knows he should stay clear, for the sake of his sobriety and his peace of mind. But his old itch is irresistible, and before long he is probing further into the circumstances of Deidre Hunt’s death, into a web of drugs and illicit sex that may have snared his own daughter, Phoebe. With its vivid, intense evocation of 1950s Dublin, and intricate, psychologically complex storyline, The Silver Swan is "even more engrossing than last year’s Christine Falls" (Entertainment Weekly).