This information about The Silver Swan shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author and feel that the reviews shown do not properly reflect the range. · A fine addition to this continuing series, The Silver Swan adds to the Benjamin Black oeuvre. Amazon readers rating: from 54 reviews; Chapter excerpt from The Silver Swan at the author's website (back to top) "Christine Falls" (Reviewed by Mary Whipple APR 3, ). Haunting, masterfully written, and utterly mesmerizing in its nuance, The Silver Swan fully lives up to the promise of Christine Falls and firmly establishes Benjamin Black (aka John Banville) among the /5().
Click here to read reviewer Luan Gaines' take on The Silver Swan.. In The Silver Swan, Garret Quirke, the pathologist from Benjamin Black's previous novel, has taken on a measure of sobriety after years of heavy bltadwin.ruined to confront his inner demons, the broken-down Quirke's instincts are roused when he is called upon to investigate the suicide of a young girl whose body has been. The world of Benjamin Black (aka Booker Prize-winning author John Banville) is a bleak and cynical one. So it's rather unsurprising that "The Silver Swan" is a bleak and cynical murder mystery, full of secrets, dark streets and loneliness. But he recently has been writing mysteries under another name — Benjamin Black. His new noir novel is called The Silver Swan. RENEE MONTAGNE, host: We're going to hear now about the latest novel.
The Silver Swan: A Novel (Quirke Book 2) Mar 4, by Benjamin Black. () $ The inimitable Quirke returns in another spellbinding crime novel, in which a young woman's dubious suicide sets off a new string of hazards and deceptions. The book jacket—complete with photo—informs that “Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville.” Now Black is back a year later with The Silver Swan. The follow-up is a more compelling mystery than its highly praised predecessor, but it depends on familiarity with that earlier book for full enjoyment. Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, who was born in Wexford, Ireland, in His novels have won numerous awards, including the Man Booker Prize in for The Sea. He lives in Dublin. Link to Benjamin Black's Website.
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