Christine Falls
Quirke is a pathologist in a Dublin hospital who stumbles upon a wide-ranging conspiracy after coming across the dead body of a girl named Christine Falls. The novel begins when Quirke, drunk from a party, sees obstetrician Malachy (who is also Quirke's brother by adoption) falsifying details on the girl's death certificate. Quirke later passes out in the basement morgue.
When he awakens, the body is gone. But Quirke is able to track it down, and his ...
