![]() ![]() So disturbed is he by this unusual sight that Quirke begins a clandestine investigation into the young woman’s death, only to be threatened and brutalized for his endeavors.Ī moody, hard-drinking man since the death of his wife, Delia, in childbirth nearly twenty years before, Quirke is a loner who barely maintains a relationship with his brother-in-law and Mal’s wife Sarah, a woman Quirke himself has coveted. In an alcoholic haze, Quirke returns to the morgue, where he discovers his brother-in-law, Malachy Griffin, doctoring the notes of deceased Christine Falls. Humans, even those we love, are capable of monstrous deceits - or so Irish pathologist Quirke learns when he delves beneath the surface of what appears to be a simple childbirth death. ![]() ![]() Book review: Benjamin Black's *Christine Falls* ![]()
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