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Christine Falls

av Benjamin Black

Serier: Quirke (1)

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It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the esteemed doctor, was in fact tampering with a corpseâ??and concealing the cause of death.
It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidiousâ??and very well-guardedâ??secrets of Dublin's high Catholic society, among them members of his own family.
Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s, the first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of Booker Prize winner John Banville's fiction to a thrilling, atmospheric crime story. Quirke is a fascinating and subtly drawn hero, Christine Falls is a classic tale of suspense, and Benjamin Black's debut marks him as a true master of the f
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Book 1 of 7 book series - Quirke is a middle age,boozing pathologist working in the hospital morgue when he starts to unravels a mystery of a dead young girl, a missing baby and how in the world is his family connected to all of this - this mystery which escalates into murder. Along the way Quirke comes to terms of his actions to acknowledge the child he let go when his wife died. Its a twisted story that Quirke appears to be the one and only willing to set the record straight. No matter the concenquences. ( )
  booklovers2 | Nov 11, 2023 |
Actually a 3.5 star. I really wanted to like this book more than I did. I liked the main character and I liked the mystery but the pacing of the book was a little slow for me. Black likes words and uses them well but I sometimes felt like he was trying to build mood at the cost of the plotting.

The setting was wonderful though and I think there was enough there that I might try book 2. If you like faster paced mysteries this book will not be for you., ( )
  cdaley | Nov 2, 2023 |
Pace was slow at times, all the various sub plots do come together ( )
  jimifenway | Mar 25, 2023 |
A bleak story of corruption involving the export of babies of unwed mothers to the US where they will be adopted and raised to become nuns and priests. Quirke, a pathologist, is investigating the death of a young mother after discovering records being falsified by his brother-in-law. An unpleasant, dark story told in Black's elegant yet melancholy style. ( )
  VivienneR | Oct 28, 2022 |
Entre tabernas, humo, whisky, poderosas congregaciones religiosas y dudosas obras de caridad, el Dublín de los años 50 esconde terribles secretos. Por los pasillos de los orfanatos y tras los pasos de silenciosas monjas de centros que acogen a mujeres embarazadas de las clases más desfavorecidas de la ciudad, crece una tenebrosa red de tráfico de niños. Solo un patólogo, perdido entre sus propios sentimientos de culpa, será capaz de enfrentarse a los oscuros planes que está maquinando algunos miembros de las más poderosas familias junto a las más altas esferas de la iglesia católica. Todo va ser cuestión de fe.
  Natt90 | Jul 5, 2022 |
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In his decision to write a straightforward, no-nonsense thriller about transatlantic baby-smuggling and the Catholic Church, John Banville, a veritable emperor of baroque prose, has not so much taken a vow of poverty as put in a sly bid to extend and reinforce his stylistic dominion. ... Those familiar with Banville will have expected nothing less; the neophyte, however, who picks up this racy little number anticipating nothing more than a night of brisk casual thrills may soon be surprised to find himself in the grips of a literary passion he had not gambled on.
 

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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:

It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the esteemed doctor, was in fact tampering with a corpseâ??and concealing the cause of death.
It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidiousâ??and very well-guardedâ??secrets of Dublin's high Catholic society, among them members of his own family.
Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s, the first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of Booker Prize winner John Banville's fiction to a thrilling, atmospheric crime story. Quirke is a fascinating and subtly drawn hero, Christine Falls is a classic tale of suspense, and Benjamin Black's debut marks him as a true master of the f

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