After a young woman's corpse is fished from the sea, Dublin pathologist Quirke delves into a ''grimy little suburban melodrama'' of kinky sex, drugs, and murder.
Movie Pitch
Picture Clive Owen as Quirke and Bill Nighy as his slippery Brit nemesis to give art-house noir mainstream appeal.
Lowdown
The Silver Swan is even more engrossing than last year's Christine Falls, the first thriller by Benjamin Black (a.k.a. Man Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville). A–
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