by John Banville · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781447237310
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«Christine Falls» is the crime novel by John Banville (as Benjamin Black), published by Picador in paperback (416 pages, in English).
Dublin pathologist Quirke discovers that his brother-in-law Malachy has tampered with the file of a dead woman, Christine Falls. Investigating her death, he faces a conspiracy silenced by Dublin's high Catholic society and by his own family. Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s, it combines suspense and psychological depth.
First instalment of the Quirke Mysteries series; originally published in 2006 and nominated for the Macavity (2007) and Edgar (2008) awards.
For readers of crime fiction with an interest in 1950s Dublin and the work of John Banville.
William John Banville is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. A former member of Aosdána, he voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer.
