THE SILVER SWAN

Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encounteredin Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourabledecade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired is dying, whilethe daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept himas her father. When an old acquaintance approaches him about his wife'sapparent suicide, Quirke recognizes trouble but, as always, trouble issomething he cannot resist.