Christine Falls

Informationen zum Autor 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, including the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea . His literary crime novels inspired the major TV series, Quirke, starring Gabriel Byrne. He lives in Dublin. Klappentext 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 after a party he stumbles across a body that should not be there - and his brother-in-law falsifying the corpse's cause of death. This is the first time Quirke has encountered Christine Falls, but the investigation he decides to lead into the way she lived and died uncovers a dark secret at the heart of Dublin's high Catholic network; one with the power to shake his own family and everything he holds dear. 'A superb stylist . . . His control and pacing cannot be faulted, and the final outcome is almost unbearably moving . . .You're in for a treat' Michael Dibdin, Guardian 'Succeeds sensationally . . . An absorbing plot, beguiling characters and evocative settings . . . His pacing is impeccable' Marcel Berlins, The Times 'A gripping, beautifully crafted thriller . . . A one sitting-read, an all-night enticement' Scotsman The first beguiling Quirke Dublin mystery Zusammenfassung The first of the beguiling Quirke Mysteries from Benjamin Black, set in the dark underbelly of 1950s Dublin.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Black, Black Benjamin
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.05.2011
• EAN: 9780330445320
• ISBN: 978-0-330-44532-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Picador; Quirke; Quirke Mysteries; Quirke Mysteries; Quirke
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Dublin, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Religious, FICTION / Media Tie-In, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, Thriller / suspense fiction, Ireland, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1950 to c 1959, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, FICTION / Urban & Street Lit, C 1945 To C 1960, FICTION / World Literature / Ireland / 21st Century, Street fiction / urban fiction