Christine Falls

By Benjamin Black

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Christine Falls (2006) is the first crime novel by Benjamin Black, the pen name of Irish novelist John Banville, and introduces Dublin pathologist Quirke. In 1950s Dublin, Quirke finds his brother-in-law altering the file of a young woman who died in childbirth. His questions lead him into a cover-up that reaches from the Catholic Church and Ireland's powerful families to an adoption network in Boston.

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