Description
| Product ID: | 9780330445320 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Quirke Mysteries |
| Title: | Christine Falls |
| Authors: | Author: Benjamin Black |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The first of the beguiling Quirke Mysteries from Benjamin Black, set in the dark underbelly of 1950s Dublin. <p><b>Introducing Quirke: a pathologist uncovering darkness in 1950s Dublin. <i>Christine Falls</i> is the first in the enthralling literary crime series from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Now major TV series: <i>Quirke</i>, starring Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon.<br><br>‘His control and pacing cannot be faulted, and the final outcome is almost unbearably moving’ – Michael Dibdin, <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>Quirke’s pathology department, set deep beneath the city, is his own gloomy realm: always quiet, always night, and always under his control. Until, late one evening, he stumbles across a body that should not be there – and his brother-in-law falsifying the corpse’s cause of death.<br><br>This is the first time Quirke has encountered Christine Falls, but the investigation he opens into her life and death uncovers a dark secret at the heart of Dublin’s high Catholic network. A secret with the power to shake his own family and everything he holds dear.<br><br><b>‘Succeeds sensationally . . . An absorbing plot, beguiling characters and evocative settings’ – Marcel Berlins, <i>The Times</i><br><br>‘A gripping, beautifully crafted thriller . . . A one sitting-read, an all-night enticement’ – <i>Scotsman</i><br><br>Continue the spellbinding crime series with <i>The Silver Swan</i>.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-05-10 |
