Benjamin Black is an author, and screenwriter under the name John Banville. He uses the pen name Benjamin Black for his crime novels. Christine Falls is the first of seven novels about Inspector Quirke, a consultant pathologist in the Dublin City morgue. The Silver Swan is the second volume and it continues Quirke's incessant need for answers. Quirke is like a refined Rebus. Quirke has been adapted for a TV series of three episodes starring Gabriel Byrne, Nick Dunning, Aishling Fransoisi and Stanley Townsend.
Book Review:John Banville writing as Benjamin Black introduces the irascible pathologist Quirke, an unforgettable new crime-fiction detective.
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Book Review:Times are moving fast for Quirke. The love of his life has died and an admired friend is dying. Even his daughter is removed from him. But trouble calls and he knows he cannot resist.
Book Review:Quirke's daughter's friend April has gone missing. Quirke investigates but his questions just seem to throw up more murky answers.
Book Review:Mysterious deaths within one respected family raise suspicions and Quirk is called in to quietly investigate.
Book Review:When a body is found in the canal gardai find it impossible to find eye witnesses as distrust in them is rife.