Christine Falls by Benjamin Black Paperback Book

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Rent Christine Falls

Author: Benjamin Black

Narrator: John Banville

Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback

Publisher: St Martins Pr

Published: Mar 2007

Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General

Retail Price: $39.95

Discs: 8

Synopsis

Fresh off his Man Booker prize-winning THE SEA, John Banville has donned the pseudonym of Benjamin Black and dipped into the dark waters of crime fiction. His protagonist is a Dublin pathologist named Quirke who, in the aftermath of his wife's death, has become a mournful drunk. His wife's side of the family comes from an elite Catholic society, its ranks filled with doctors and judges, but when Quirke discovers his brother-in-law Malachy altering the cause of death on the corpse of a young woman, he begins to discover the seedy underbelly of Dublin's upper class. Black writes with a grisly cold-hearted brilliance, and the novel reveals itself with the same chilling precision of a masterfully performed autopsy.

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