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Christine Falls
Benjamin Black
#UB9252
Paperback, 369 pages; 2008 (2006)
$14.00
Quirke was aware of his quickened breathing and a thick, hot sensation in his chest that was not fear, exactly, but a kind of dawning alarm, as if the smooth, empty little island on which he had been happily perched had given a preliminary heave, and would presently reveal itself to be not dry land at all but the humped back of a whale.
The suspenseful, twisted plot and dark, sultry atmosphere of this absorbing thriller keep the reader—as well as Quirke, the surly but likable protagonist of the tale—on ever-shifting ground. A pathologist in 1950s Dublin, Quirke stumbles upon a sinister scheme when he digs a little too deeply into the history of a corpse that comes through his morgue. In Christine Falls, Benjamin Black (a pen name for Booker Prize-winning author John Banville) has crafted a crime novel that is both lyrical and gripping.
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