Journal Entry 1 by footymadgill from Croydon, Surrey United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Synopsis:

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 after a party he stumbles across a body that should not be there and his brother-in-law falsifying the corpse's cause of death. This is the first time Quirke has encountered Christine Falls, but the investigation he decides to lead into the way she lived and died uncovers a dark secret at the heart of Dublin's high Catholic network; one with the power to shake his own family and everything he holds dear. 

Journal Entry 2 by footymadgill at BCUK Unconvention 2011 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom on Saturday, September 10, 2011

Released 8 mos ago (9/23/2011 UTC) at BCUK Unconvention 2011 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom

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Releasing at the BCUK Unconvention 

Journal Entry 3 by Cassiopaeia at Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Sunday, September 25, 2011

This was in my goodie bag at the UnCon and it's from my Wish List!! I have wanted to read a Benjamin Black book for some time. Thank you so much, it was a wonderful surprise.  

Journal Entry 4 by Cassiopaeia at Cardiff, Wales United Kingdom on Saturday, October 29, 2011

As one would expect from a writer of Banville’s calibre this is very well written but poorly classified if put forward as ‘crime’ novel per say. I know a number of crime fans that wouldn’t appreciate it. I thoroughly enjoyed the dark characterisation of Quirk and the smouldering revelation that underpins the whole story. The atmosphere of 1950s Dublin was very convincing, subtly written with just enough scene-setting detail. I’m looking forward to the next one - The Silver Swan. I'm very glad to have finally read a Benjamin Black novel.