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Christine Falls

A Novel

By Benjamin Black, John Banville

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| Hardcover | 9780805081527

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In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of
a conspiracy among the city’s high Catholic society It’s not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It’s the living.One night, Continue

In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of
a conspiracy among the city’s high Catholic society 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.

Critics

  • E for effort in a hard school

    Somebody, somewhere, must be writing a PhD exploring why authors of literary fiction so often try their hands at a crime novel and why some of them come a cropper in the process. The latest author to hear the siren call of crime is John Banville, win ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Christine Falls By John Banville (writing as Benjamin Black)

    Sukey's favorite Garret Quirke drinks too much and thinks too much maybe broods is more apt. But he's got a lot to brood about: his early life as an orphan; a wife who died years ago in childbirth; her sister, whom he still loves, married to a man he ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

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  • A great read. More than a thriller and no action sequences apart from the occasional beating up that happens in most towns on a Saturday night.

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