Quirke is the chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue
- a charasmatic loner whose job takes him into fascinating places as he investigates sudden death in 1950s Dublin. His pleasures in life are raw & deep a drink a smoke good food a woman. One woman in particular
- his adoptive brothers wife Sarah
- & the forbidden love that has shaped & dominated Quirkes life. Adapted from the novels by John Banville writing as Benjamin Black the three feature length films
- Christine Falls The Silver Swan & Elegy for April
- reveal the tangled truth about Quirkes living family even as he uncovers the secrets of the Dublin dead.