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Christine Falls - Paperback

by John Banville
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Availability:In StockContributor:John BanvilleSeries:QuirkePublish date:2025-08-19Pages:352
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9781250417329ISBN-10:1250417325UPC:9781250417329Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Mystery & Detective, NoirBook Topic:HistoricalSize:8.18 x 5.35 x 0.95 inchesWeight:0.68Product ID:SCHRV0CZ9J

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).
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9781250417329ISBN-10:1250417325UPC:9781250417329Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Mystery & Detective, NoirBook Topic:HistoricalSize:8.18 x 5.35 x 0.95 inchesWeight:0.68Product ID:SCHRV0CZ9J
JOHN BANVILLE was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of numerous novels, including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize, and the DI Quirke mysteries. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature, and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain's most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin.
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

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