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Author
Series
Quirke mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling "Christine Falls", and Quirke, the irascible,formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist, ought to know better than to let his curiosity get the best of him.Yet when an acquaintance comes to him about his beautiful young wife's apparent suicide, Quirke's "old itch to cut into the quick of things, to delve into the dark of what was hidden" is roused again.
Author
Series
Quirke mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Quirke, a hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist, is determined to find his daughter's best friend, a well-connected young doctor. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman. Set in Dublin, circa 1950.
Author
Series
Quirke mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Summoned by Detective Inspector Hackett to investigate the suspicious death of a newspaper tycoon, Quirke discovers a relationship between the victim's grieving sister and Quirke's pathology assistant David Sinclair, a situation that is further complicated by a deadly secret.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is a brain tumor. A specialist diagnoses an old head injury caused by a savage beating; all that's needed, the doctor declares, is an extended rest. But Quirke, ever intent on finding his place among the living, is not about to retire. One night during a June heat wave, a car crashes into a tree in central...
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