A review by lazygal
The Silver Swan, by Benjamin Black

4.0

This is the second Quirke mystery I've read (and that Black/Banville has written). Hmmm... his literary writing is so very evident here, with vivid description throughout. That was great; more problematic is the exposition, which is too literary in tone and too much in general. Perhaps I'm just used to more genre-centric mystery writers, but there were times in this book that I simply felt "move on... this isn't needed here" vis-a-vis description and/or exposition. Still, it's an interesting series and I wouldn't avoid a third one.