![]() A one sitting-read, an all-night enticement’ – ScotsmanĬontinue the spellbinding crime series with The Silver Swan. ![]() ‘A gripping, beautifully crafted thriller. His pacing is impeccable’ – Marcel Berlins, The Times An absorbing plot, beguiling characters and evocative settings. You’re in for a treat’ – Michael Dibdin, Guardian His control and pacing cannot be faulted, and the final outcome is almost unbearably moving. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidiousand very well-guardedsecrets of Dublin’s high Catholic society, among them members of his own family. A secret with the power to shake his own family and everything he holds dear. It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. 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 Dublin’s high Catholic network. ![]() Until, late one evening, he stumbles across a body that should not be there – and his brother-in-law falsifying the corpse’s cause of death. Quirke’s pathology department, set deep beneath the city, is his own gloomy realm: always quiet, always night, and always under his control. Other articles where Christine Falls is discussed: John Banville: Dublin pathologist in the 1950s: Christine Falls (2006), The Silver Swan (2007). ![]() Now major TV series: Quirke, starring Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon. Christine Falls is the first in the enthralling literary crime series from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. ![]() Introducing Quirke: a pathologist uncovering darkness in 1950s Dublin. ![]()
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