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The Silver Swan

Quirke, Book 2

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The Silver Swan

By: Benjamin Black
Narrated by: Timothy Dalton
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Read by Timothy Dalton, best known for his role as James Bond.

Quirke returns. The Silver Swan is the second entry in the spellbinding literary crime series set in 1950s Dublin from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Now major TV series: Quirke, starring Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon.

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 of the Quirke Mysteries. Continue the atmospheric crime series with Elegy for April.

©2007 Benjamin Black (P)2008 Macmillan Audio Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Mystery Noir Police Procedurals Political Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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I was enjoying the book and performance. Enough complexity and characterisation (particularly the cockney hairdresser). And then 'blamo': the plot is tied up in what felt like a couple of minutes. A disappointing end to an otherwise good read/listen.

Finished as fast as a couple of teenagers!

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O narrador tem uma voz agradável, porém não altera a tom para momentos distintos, como exitação, medo, apreensão, fúria. . .

Série de Mistério para adultos.

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If you could sum up The Silver Swan in three words, what would they be?

Good,well written story, and well narrated.

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I've never keen on mystery or thriller, but something made me curious and listen till the end. I'm still finding my favorite mystery, but I'm glad Silver Swan was my first.

Wow the narrator did his best

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