<p><b>Introducing Quirke: a pathologist uncovering darkness in 1950s Dublin. <i>Christine Falls</i> is the first in the enthralling literary crime series from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Now major TV series: <i>Quirke</i>, starring Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon.</b><br><br>Quirke’s pathology department, set deep beneath the city, is his own gloomy realm: always quiet, always night, and always under his control. Until, late one evening, he stumbles across a body that should not be there – and his brother-in-law falsifying the corpse’s cause of death.<br><br>This is the first time Quirke has encountered Christine Falls, but the investigation he opens into her life and death uncovers a dark secret at the heart of Dublin’s high Catholic network. A secret with the power to shake his own family and everything he holds dear.<br><br><b>‘A superb