A review by mark_lm
The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black

4.0

1. I liked it.
2. Another reviewer commented that this was morally claustrophobic and there is a definite deliberate tawdriness that even one of the characters comments on. Certainly one should expect a noir to be dark, but Banville's world's incompetent sleaze is well-established even, and most importantly, in the protagonist.

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3. If a forensic pathologist deliberately failed to report gross and toxicologic findings that showed illegal drug use and suggested murder, and then announced publicly in a legal action that he thought the decedent had died accidentally, at the very least he would lose his job.