Christine Falls

Introducing Quirke: a pathologist uncovering darkness in 1950s Dublin. Christine Falls is the first in the enthralling literary crime series from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Now major TV series: Quirke, starring Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon. His control and pacing cannot be faulted, and the final outcome is almost unbearably moving Michael Dibdin, Guardian Quirkes 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 corpses cause of death. 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 Dublins high Catholic network. A secret with the power to shake his own family and everything he holds dear. Succeeds sensationally . . . An absorbing plot, beguiling characters and evocative settings Marcel Berlins, The Times A gripping, beautifully crafted thriller . . . A one sitting-read, an all-night enticement Scotsman Continue the spellbinding crime series with The Silver Swan.