Christine Falls - Benjamin Black

A young woman named Christine Falls dies in a Dublin hospital. Pathologist Quirke begins to doubt whether the cause of death is really what was in the records. Quirke himself is a man of many contradictions, with his own demons to contend with. Little by little, the forgeries of the Irish Catholic circles and the business with newborn children begin to be revealed.

«Christine Falls» is a book with a haunting atmosphere about human misfortune, its exploitation and the tragedy that occurs when people start to consider themselves gods.

The name Benjamin Black is used by the Irish writer John Banville, writing books that differ from his usual work. They differ primarily in that they have a criminal plot and are set in 1950s Dublin. To date, he has already published four novels, in which the main character is Quirke, a pathologist at the Holy Family Hospital, a controversial man who tries to remain honest and also to find out the mysterious cases that have attracted his attention.