Praise for The Silver Swan "Grippingly propulsive . Christine Falls was the most artful noir mystery in years; The Silver Swan is better."--Los Angeles Times"[Banville's] sinuous prose, subtle eroticism, and 1950s period detail do more than enough to put this series on the map."--The New York Times Book Review"The 1950s Dublin setting--all Guinness drays, blackbird song and biscuit-factory smells--is rendered as sensuously as it would be in any novel by Banville, a writer having fun of the highest standard."--The Guardian"The Silver Swan is a defter and more complex book than its predecessor.The new novel boasts a neat whodunnit plot and a delightful command of suspense, but there's also a kind of mordant, near-surreal playfulness about the characters' appearance and actions this time, and the constricted dance that they undertake."--The Independent"The creeping sense of menace, corruption and existential despair is pure Banville and gives this tale of sexual obsession and betrayal its edge."--The Times (London)"[Banville] proved he could walk the crime-fiction walk with the Edgar®-nominated Christine Falls, and now his luminous prose gets an even better infrastructure in the sequel, a faster-paced, further melancholic slice of the noir life of Dublin pathologist Quirke.

"--The Baltimore Sun"[A] brilliant book."--The Seattle Times"A satisfying blend of the muck, and pluck, of the Irish . The author knows 1950s Dublin inside and out and the narrative drives onward with pitch-perfect passages."--The Christian Science Monitor"A stunning follow-up to Christine Falls."--Publishers Weekly (starred)"[Banville] is a superb, evocative writer."--The Miami Herald"If you like your mysteries like Guinness--dark and Irish--look no further."--Rocky Mountain News (Denver)"Banville.never stoop[s] to cliché in word, image, or concept.

The delicate but inexorable suspense grows in the natural way, from misunderstanding, deceit, loneliness, and fear."--The Oregonian (Portland) Praise for John Banville "Ireland's greatest living novelist.a literary polymath."--The New York Times"A grand writer with a seductive style."--The New York Times Book Review"The Irish master."--The New Yorker"One of the best novelists in English."--The Guardian"One of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today."--The Washington Post"[Banville's] books are like baroque cathedrals.

"--The Paris Review"Prodigiously gifted. He cannot write an unpolished phrase."--The Independent"One periodically rereads a [Banville] sentence just to marvel at its beauty."--USA Today"Banville is a master at capturing the most fleeting memory or excruciating twinge of self-awareness with riveting accuracy."--People.