by John Banville
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
ISBN: 9781429906227
352 pages
Published: 2007-03-06
Publisher: Macmillan Trade