The Quirke Series - Book 1
Christine Falls
“Swirling, elegant noir…Crossover fiction of a very high order…Rolls forward with haunting, sultry exoticism…toward the best kind of denouement under these circumstances: a half inconclusive one.”
New York Times
Among longlisted titles for Audible.com Best of the Year, 2007
Nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee, 2008
Among longlisted titles for Audible.com 100 Audible Essentials, 2007
Winner of Publishers Weekly Listen Up Awards: Best in Category, 2007
Nominated for Macavity Award - Nominee, 2007
Among longlisted titles for Audible.com Best of the Year, 2007
Nominated for Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee, 2008
Among longlisted titles for Audible.com 100 Audible Essentials, 2007
Winner of Publishers Weekly Listen Up Awards: Best in Category, 2007
Nominated for Macavity Award - Nominee, 2007
One of Stephen King's Best Books of the 21st Century
"It was not the dead that seemed to Quirke uncanny but the living."
Quirke is a haunted, hard-drinking pathologist stumbling through the brooding gloom of 1950s Dublin. It is a society of secrets and meanness, dominated by a rigid hierarchy-as Quirke is reminded of when he catches his well-connected brother-in-law faking morgue records.
The cause of this tampering is the corpse of a mysterious woman: Christine Falls. But who is she, and how did she die? Quirke's hunt for the answers to these questions will draw him into a transatlantic conspiracy and pit him against some of Dublin's most powerful forces, from the Catholic Church to members of his own family.
Originally published under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, John Banville's debut thriller reveals a new side of "Ireland's greatest living novelist" (The New York Times).
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Co.
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