trauma rooted in Sigurdís's own childhood threatens to resurface and the investigation strikes chillingly close to home…Atmospheric
When the village's pub landlord disappears
even if it's just imaginary
a sinister character who has in fact married Ann
with nothing to guide him but the drawing of a sea leopard and the fear of a phoney electrician
The Silver Swan Liz Nugent trauma rooted in Sigurdís's ownTime has moved on for Quirke, the world weary Dublin 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 Billy Hunt, an acquaintance from college days, approaches him about his wife's apparent suicide, Quirke recognises trouble