●It has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world to an irascible Dublin pathologist named Quirke. Quirke's beloved Sarah has died, his surrogate father lies paralyzed by a stroke, and he’s been sober for half a year. When a near-forgotten acquaintance asks him to cover up his beautiful young wife’s apparent suicide, Quirke knows he should stay clear, for the sake of his sobriety and his peace of mind. But his old itch is irresistible, and before long he is probing further into the circumstances of Deidre Hunt’s death, into a web of drugs and illicit sex that may have snared his own daughter, Phoebe. With its vivid, intense evocation of 1950s Dublin, and intricate, psychologically complex storyline, The Silver Swan is "even more engrossing than last year’s Christine Falls" ●《墮落的信徒》出版至今已兩年，這本暢銷著作的主人翁是一位脾氣暴躁的都伯林人、病理學家奎克。奎克心愛的妻子莎拉去世了，收養他的父親又因為中風而癱瘓在病床上，而他整整半年都沒有喝醉過。有個他幾乎快忘掉的老朋友，要奎克掩飾住他年輕妻子自殺的事情，奎克知道自己該對這件事避而遠之，因為他還想保持住理智及內心的平靜。但心癢難耐，很快地他開始進一步尋找黛得赫‧亨特的死因，發現到幕後非法毒品及淫亂的複雜世界，而奎克的女兒菲比可能會誤入陷阱。《銀天鵝》故事舞台為1950年代的都伯林，作者靈活地刻劃地過去的歷史，一切都栩栩如生；故事細膩，心理描寫令人玩味，絕對比去年 的 《墮落的信徒》更引人入勝。