{"product_id":"christine-falls","title":"Christine Falls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Stephen King's Best Books of the 21st Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"It was not the dead that seemed to Quirke uncanny but the living.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eQuirke is a haunted, hard-drinking pathologist stumbling through the brooding gloom of 1950s Dublin. It is a society of secrets and meanness, dominated by a rigid hierarchy--as Quirke is reminded of when he catches his well-connected brother-in-law faking morgue records. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe cause of this tampering is the corpse of a mysterious woman: Christine Falls. But who is she, and how did she die? Quirke's hunt for the answers to these questions will draw him into a transatlantic conspiracy and pit him against some of Dublin's most powerful forces, from the Catholic Church to members of his own family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, John Banville's debut thriller reveals a new side of \"Ireland's greatest living novelist\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1250417325\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781250417329\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Banville, John, N\/A, N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Holt Paperbacks\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Holt Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Aug 2025)","offer_id":45660105015493,"sku":"9781250417329","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781250417329.jpg?v=1768918330","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/christine-falls","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}