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In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city’s high Catholic society   It’s not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It’s the living. One night, after a few drinks at an... read more

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First Sentence

IT WAS NOT THE DEAD THAT SEEMED TO QUIRKE UNCANNY BUT THE living.

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  1. Benjamin Black (Author)
 

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