For book lovers looking for more, Benjamin Black's The Silver Swan might just be your bHarmony.com match.

Following last year's Christine Falls , the inimitable Garret Quirke returns in another well-written book—more literary novel than mystery, in which a young woman's dubious suicide sets off a new string of hazards and deceptions.

Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls , and much has changed for the introspective, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. His beloved Sarah is dead, his surrogate father lies in a convent hospital paralyzed by a devastating stroke, and Phoebe, Quirke's long-denied daughter, has grown increasingly withdrawn and isolated. With much to regret from his last inquisitive foray, Quirke ought to know better than to let his curiosity get the better of him. Yet when an old acquaintance comes to him about his beautiful young wife's apparent suicide, Quirke's penchant for cutting into the quick of things is roused again. As he begins to probe further into the shadowy circumstances of Deirdre Hunt's death, he discovers many things that might better have remained hidden.

Far more character study than whodunit, reading The Silver Swan is pure pleasure. Black's detailed, nuanced writing vividly brings his characters and the world they inhabit to startling, multi-dimensional life. With skill and subtlety, his observations reveal insight after haunting insight into humanity.

As evidenced in Christine Falls , The Silver Swan again demonstrates that plot is not Mr. Black's long suit—more means than ends—but it's not without twists and turns, and its psychological insights and fine writing more than make up for it.

If you're in the mood for a fling—a light entertaining affair—give The Crime Writer a whirl, but if you're looking for love, get to know Benjamin Black and his character Garret Quirke. You might just find a relationship that will last a lifetime.