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The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgue to find his brother-in-law tampering with the records on a young woman's corpse. The next morning, when his hangover has worn off, Quirke reluctantly begins looking into the woman's history. He discovers a plot that spans two continents, implicates the Catholic Church, and may just involve members of his own family. He is warned--first subtly, then with violence--to lay off, but Quirke is a stubborn man. The first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of John Banville's writing to the dark, menacing atmosphere of a first-class thriller.
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Christine Falls, John Banville
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- Released
- 2008
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- Title
- Christine Falls
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Language
- English
- Authors
- John Banville
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 340
- ISBN10
- 0312426321
- ISBN13
- 9780312426323
- Series
- Quirke
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Mystery & Thriller, Thriller, Detective Fiction, Ireland, Irish Literature, Adapted into Series
- First published
- 2006
- Original title
- Christine Falls
- Rating
- 3.45 out of 5
- Description
- The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgue to find his brother-in-law tampering with the records on a young woman's corpse. The next morning, when his hangover has worn off, Quirke reluctantly begins looking into the woman's history. He discovers a plot that spans two continents, implicates the Catholic Church, and may just involve members of his own family. He is warned--first subtly, then with violence--to lay off, but Quirke is a stubborn man. The first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of John Banville's writing to the dark, menacing atmosphere of a first-class thriller.