Christine Falls
Black, Benjamin
Banville, John
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BOOK SUMMARY
In the debut crime novel from the Booker Prize-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
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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.
AUTHOR BIO
Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, who was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His novels have won numerous awards, most recently the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea. He lives in Dublin.
BOOK REVIEWS
Advance Praise for Christine Falls: "Christine Falls is a triumph of classical crime fiction, finely, carefully made, not a single false move or wrong word--why don't they write books like this anymore?"--Alan Furst Praise for the Work of John Banville: "Contemporary fiction gets no better than this... Banville's books teem with life and humor."--Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review on The Untouchable "John Banville is the heir to Nabokov."--The Sunday Telegraph on The Sea "A major work of fiction in which every suave moment calmly detonates to show the murderous gleam within."--Don DeLillo on The Book of Evidence
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1427200726
ISBN(13-digit): 9781427200723
Dewey Decimal: 823/.92
Library of Congress: bl2007004471
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
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