Quirke - he has but the one name - is a consultant pathologist. After a hospital party he staggers back to the morgue and finds a body that shouldn't be there and his brother-in-law, an eminent obstetrician, altering a file to cover up the real cause of death. It's a discovery that will lead to more death and a secret which has been poisoning the heart of Dublin's Catholic hierarchy.
This book was kindly sent to Bookbag by the publishers, Picador.
|comment= That's definitely mother's Christmas present sorted then. (Unless she gets here first and reads the review. Eek!)
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|comment= Oh, I don't know about genre crossing. Iain Banks writes SUPERB s-f as Iain M. banks and in Poland an incredibly acomplished translator of Shakespeare and Joyce wrote a series of great Agatha-Christie type crime mysteries!
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|comment= Ah, but there are always exceptions which prove the rules, Magda!