Christine Falls

a novel

340 pages

English language

Published Oct. 10, 2006 by H. Holt.

ISBN:
978-0-8050-8152-7
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OCLC Number:
68694427

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"Quirke and Malachy Griffin were raised as brothers, though Quirke - rescued from an Irish orphanage by Malachy's father, the eminent Judge Garrett Griffin - was always the favored son. But Malachy married the American girl Quirke loved, and Quirke settled for her sister, who died in childbirth soon thereafter. Malachy went on to become a prominent obstetrician and Quirke a hard-drinking pathologist, and for the past twenty years the two have coexisted uneasily as brothers-in-law as well as rivals." "Then one night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down to the morgue and discovers Malachy altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find him there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, Quirke begins to suspect that his brother-in-law was in fact tampering with a corpse - and concealing the cause of death. It turns out …

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Subjects

  • Pathologists -- Fiction
  • Upper class -- Ireland -- Fiction
  • Catholics -- Fiction
  • Dublin (Ireland) -- Fiction