Update May 14, 2020: This book and 2 more in the series have been adapted for tv. Update April 9,2019: My wife read this book and plans to read the rest of the series. Thank You Theresa for this excellent book!

We met when my wife and I visited the UK. I received this book from Goodreads friend Theresa, in a book exchange. 'Padding barefoot about the floor, all shoulders and little feet and big, broad back, he had the look of some wild animal, a bear, maybe.'įriend of Quirke's: 'He said it was a long time since he had seen the world in the morning, and that in the interval there had been no improvement at all that he could make out.' 'It was the first real day of autumn and the sky was a luminous mist that cast a milky reflection on the water.'ĭescriptions of Quirke: 'This office was too small-everywhere was too small, for him.His excessive size had always been a burden for him.' This story has long buried secrets coming out and causing pain. Quirke does solve the mystery, which has a US connection. Quirke starts asking questions, and because of this, a woman is murdered and Quirke is attacked. Quirke is a pathologist in Dublin, and discovers his brother-in-law Malachy Griffin falsifying a death certificate.

I took my time reading this mystery(3 weeks), enjoying the finely crafted images of 1950s Dublin, Ireland. He decided to write a mystery under the pen name Benjamin Black and this is the result. Banville had previously written literary fiction and won a Man Booker prize. Urn:oclc:872606305 Republisher_date 20120516080004 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120515135621 Scanner is the first book in the Quirke series by John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. OL11651249W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.17 Pages 362 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0330445316 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:30:28 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA150801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1.

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