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Silver swan

Garret Quirke, a Dublin pathologist, investigates the apparent suicide of Deidre Hunt, the young wife of an old acquaintance, and discovers a web of lies and blackmail that threatens to envelop even his own estranged daughter, Phoebe.

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  • "Garret Quirke, a Dublin pathologist, investigates the apparent suicide of Deidre Hunt, the young wife of an old acquaintance, and discovers a web of lies and blackmail that threatens to envelop even his own estranged daughter, Phoebe."@en
  • "Time has moved on for Quirke. A woman he loved has died, a man whom he once admired is dying, while the daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept him as her father. When Billy Hunt, an acquaintance from college days, approaches him about his wife's apparent suicide, Quirke recognises trouble."@en
  • "It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man whom he once admired is dying, while the daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept him as her father. When an old acquaintance approaches him about his wife's apparent suicide, Quirke recognizes trouble but, as always, trouble is something he cannot resist."
  • "Quirke, an irascible, hard-drinking Dublin pathologist, investigates the apparent suicide of Deidre Hunt, the beautiful young wife of an old acquaintance, and discovers many things that might better have remained hidden, as well as grave danger to those he loves.--From publisher description."
  • "Quirke, an irascible, hard-drinking Dublin pathologist, investigates the apparent suicide of Deidre Hunt, the beautiful young wife of an old acquaintance, and discovers many things that might better have remained hidden, as well as grave danger to those he loves.--From publisher description."@en
  • "Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary Dublin pathologist. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man whom he once admired is dying, while the daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept him as her father."@en
  • "Irascible Dublin pathologist Quirke gets in over his head when an old acquaintance asks him to investigate the apparent suicide of his young wife, Deirdre Hunt, and Quirke uncovers some dangerous secrets that had been better off hidden."@en
  • "Irascible Dublin pathologist Quirke gets in over his head when an old acquaintance asks him to investigate the apparent suicide of his young wife, Deirdre Hunt, and Quirke uncovers some dangerous secrets that had been better off hidden."
  • "CRIME & MYSTERY. Now a major TV series: Quirke starring Gabriel Byrne and written by Andrew Davies Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man whom he once admired is dying, while the daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept him as her father. When an old acquaintance approaches him about his wife's apparent suicide, Quirke recognizes trouble but, as always, trouble is something he cannot resist. 'Absorbing, atmospheric and moving. More please' Guardian 'Drug addiction, morbid sexual obsession, blackmail and murder, as well as prose as crisp as a winter's morning by the Liffey ... Quirke is human enough to swell the hardest of hearts' GQ 'A romp of a read, a compelling fix' Scotsman."

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  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Crime & mystery"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Silver swan"@en
  • "Un favore personale"
  • "Un favore personale"@it
  • "The silver swan : a quirke Dublin mystery"
  • "The Silver Swan"
  • "The Silver Swan"@en
  • "The silver swan : a novel"
  • "The silver swan : a novel"@en
  • "Silver Swan"@da
  • "The silver swan : a Quirke mystery"
  • "The silver swan"@en
  • "The silver swan"

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