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Christine Falls [large print]

It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the esteemed doctor, was in fact tampering with a corpse - and concealing the cause of death. It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidious, and very well-guarded, secrets of Dublin's high Catholic society, among them members of his own family.

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  • "It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the esteemed doctor, was in fact tampering with a corpse - and concealing the cause of death. It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidious, and very well-guarded, secrets of Dublin's high Catholic society, among them members of his own family."@en
  • ""The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgue to find his brother-in-law tampering with the records on a young woman's corpse. The next morning, when his hangover has worn off, Quirke reluctantly begins looking into the woman's history. He discovers a plot that spans two continents, implicates the Catholic Church, and may just involve members of his own family. He is warned--first subtly, then with violence--to lay off, but Quirke is a stubborn man. The first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of John Banville's writing to the dark, menacing atmosphere of a first-class thriller."--Publisher's website."
  • "Benjamin Quirke is a medical pathologist who tries to find the true cause of death of a young lady, Christine Falls -- tricky thing is, her files have possibly been altered, and Quirke's own family may have been involved in the alterations -- and the death."
  • "Quirke and Malachy, who had been raised as brothers even though Quirke had come from an Irish orphanage, marry two sisters with Malachy marrying the girl Quirke loved. After years of coexisting uneasily, Quirke comes up against some well guarded secrets of Dublin's high Catholic society."
  • "Quirke, a pathologist in 1950s Dublin, suspects that his adopted brother, Malachy Griffin, tampered with the corpse of a young woman, Christine Falls, to conceal the cause of death. As he investigates, he begins to uncover a scandal that involves the pillars of Dublin's Catholic society as well as his own family's secrets."@en
  • "Dublin, années 1950. Quirke, médecin légiste, découvre un soir son beau-frère assis à son bureau à la morgue. Ce dernier consultait un dossier qu'il tente de dissimuler. Le lendemain, lorsque Quirke retourne à son travail, le dossier a disparu ainsi que le cadavre de la jeune femme concernée. Quirke se retrouve dans une affaire impliquant la haute société catholique de Dublin ainsi que sa famille.--[Memento]."
  • "Quirke Griffin begins to suspect his brother Malachy, a prominent obstetrician, may have been involved in the mysterious death of a young woman named Christine Falls, and sets out to uncover the truth."@en
  • "Als der Pathologe Quirke eines nachts seinen Schwager in der Leichenhalle, vertieft in die Akte einer jungen Frau, sieht, ist sein Argwohn geweckt. Er stellt Nachforschungen an und entdeckt Verstrickungen zwischen seiner eigenen Familie und der der Toten."
  • "Returning to the morgue where he works after an office party, Dublin pathologist Quirke stumbles across a body that should not have been there, as well as his brother-in-law, pediatrician Malachy Griffin, altering a file to cover up the corpse's cause ofdeath."
  • "Returning to the morgue where he works after an office party, Dublin pathologist Quirke stumbles across a body that should not have been there, as well as his brother-in-law, pediatrician Malachy Griffin, altering a file to cover up the corpse's cause ofdeath."@en
  • "In the Pathology Department one night, late after a party, Quirke stumbles across a body that shouldn't have been there and his brother-in-law, eminent paediatrician Malachy Griffin - a rare sight in Quirke's gloomy domain - altering a file to cover up the corpse's cause of death. It is the first time Quirke encounters Christine Falls. The investigation he decides to lead into the way she lived - and the reason she died - disturbs a dark secret that has been festering at the core of Dublin's high Catholic society, a secret ready to destabilise the very heart and soul of Quirke's own family ..."@en
  • "Returning to the morgue where he works after an office party, Dublin pathologist Quirke stumbles across a body that should not have been there, as well as his brother-in-law, pediatrician Malachy Griffin, altering a file to cover up the corpse's cause of death."@en
  • "In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city?s high Catholic society. It?s not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It?s the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the esteemed doctor, was in fact tampering with a corpse?and concealing the cause of death. It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidious?and very well-guarded?secrets of Dublin?s high Catholic society, among them members of his own family. Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s, the first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of Booker Prize winner John Banville?s fiction to a thrilling, atmospheric crime story. Quirke is a fascinating and subtly drawn hero, Christine Falls is a classic tale of suspense, and Benjamin Black?s debut marks him as a true master of the form."@en
  • "In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city?s high Catholic society. It?s not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It?s the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, it looks an awful lot like his brother-in-law, the esteemed doctor, was in fact tampering with a corpse?and concealing the cause of death. It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidious?and very well-guarded?secrets of Dublin?s high Catholic society, among them members of his own family. Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s, the first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of Booker Prize winner John Banville?s fiction to a thrilling, atmospheric crime story. Quirke is a fascinating and subtly drawn hero, Christine Falls is a classic tale of suspense, and Benjamin Black?s debut marks him as a true master of the form."

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  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Powieść kryminalna irlandzka w języku angielskim"@pl
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"
  • "Powieść irlandzka w języku angielskim"@pl

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  • "Tajemnica Christine Falls"@pl
  • "Christine Falls [large print]"@en
  • "Christine Falls bk.1"
  • "Les disparus de Dublin : roman"
  • "Les disparus de Dublin roman"
  • "Nicht frei von Sünde : Roman"
  • "Christine falls"
  • "El Secreto de Christine"
  • "Les disparus de Dublin"
  • "Christine Falls : a novel"@en
  • "Christine Falls : a novel"
  • "Christine Falls a novel"@en
  • "Nicht frei von Sünde Kriminalroman"
  • "Christine Falls"@sv
  • "Christine Falls"@da
  • "Christine Falls"
  • "Christine Falls"@en
  • "El secreto de Christine"@es
  • "El secreto de Christine"
  • "El secreto de Christinne"@es
  • "Nicht frei von Sünde Roman"
  • "El secreto de Christie"@es
  • "Christine Falls : a Quirke mystery"@en
  • "Christine Falls : a Quirke mystery"

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