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|title=The Silver Swan

|sort=Silver Swan

|date=October 2008

|isbn=978-0330454087

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We first encountered Quirke in [[Christine Falls]] and whilst we're still in nineteen-fifties Dublin time has moved on for the pathologist. He's getting to know the daughter whose parentage he had long denied, but Phoebe, unsurprisingly, has difficulty accepting him. A man he once revered but now despises is dying and the woman he loved is dead. A telephone call from Billy Hunt drags him even further back into his past - he and Hunt were acquaintances at medical school. Hunt's wife has apparently committed suicide and he's anxious that she shouldn't be opened up at a post-mortem. Every instinct tells Quirke that he shouldn't get involved, but he's unable to stop himself.