Benjamin Black

The Silver Swan

Detective confronts dark secrets in Dublin's wealthy society

About the author

Benjamin Black

Benjamin Black was the pen name of Irish Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville, who used it to write his Quirke pathologist crime series set in 1950s Dublin. His novels brought his literary novelist's precision and atmospheric sensibility to genre fiction. Christine Falls is widely considered one of the finest Irish crime novels.

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