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In the debut crime novel from the Booker-win ning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city?s high Catholic society
Henry Holt
March 2007
On Sale: March 6, 2007
Featuring: Quirke
352 pages
ISBN: 0805081526
EAN: 9780805081527
Hardcover
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Mystery | Suspense | Thriller
It’s not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It’s the
living.One night, after a few drinks at an office party,
Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and
finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no
business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy
there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it
looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the esteemed
doctor, was in fact tampering with a corpse—and concealing
the cause of death. It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named
Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward
the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some
insidious—and very well-guarded—secrets of Dublin’s high
Catholic society, among them members of his own family. Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s, the first novel in
the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological
insight of Booker Prize winner John Banville’s fiction to a
thrilling, atmospheric crime story. Quirke is a fascinating
and subtly drawn hero, Christine Falls is a classic tale of
suspense, and Benjamin Black’s debut marks him as a true
master of the form.
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