Quirke, a pathologist at Dublin's Holy Family Hospital.Ī widower and workaholic, Quirke labors in the hospital's basement morgue. The secrets in question are family secrets, hidden for decades, and reading "Christine Falls" is like peeling an onion that turns out to be rotten at its core. In it, dark secrets lurk beneath the placid surface waiting to be revealed.
"Christine Falls" is an intricately plotted, beautifully written debut crime novel set in 1950s Dublin and Boston. Now Banville (adopting the noir-sounding pen name Benjamin Black) has turned his enormous literary talents to something new. Banville's "The Sea," his 2005 novel about an Irish writer haunted by his past, won the prestigious Man Booker Prize. Dubliner John Banville's novels blend psychological insight with breathtaking lyrical firepower.
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