Holy Orders: A Quirke Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250050278 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Why? Because in 1950s Ireland, the Catholic Church controls the lives of nearly everyone. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST MYSTERIES OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.The latest Quirke case opens in Dublin at a moment when newspapers are censored, social conventions are strictly defined, and appalling crimes are hushed up. Along with Inspector Hackett, his sometime partner, Quirke learns just how far the church and its supporters will go to protect their own interests.In Holy Orders, Benjamin Black's inimitable creation, the endlessly curious Quirke brings a pathologist's unique understanding of death to unlock the most dangerous of secrets.. But when Quirke's daughter, Phoebe, loses her close friend Jimmy Minor to murder, Quirke can no longer play by the church's rules
I loved the first three Quirke mysteries and John Banville is Sheila Breen Urquidi I loved the first three Quirke mysteries and John Banville is a great writer. But I thought the plot was too thin in this one and that there was just too much dwelling on neurotic obsessions. The ending too was bad with the reader left with Quirke's unresolved health or mental problem.. Five Stars John R. Engbers Quirk actually solves the crime,. "Best in the series so far, if his bleakest" according to John L Murphy. With the sixth installment in John Banville's busman's holiday writing as Benjamin Black, pathologist Quirke with a side pursuit as amateur detective risks resembling a brooding houseguest intent on staying. Banville's erudite, Continental-style novels of ideas, with characters trapped within history by their own haunted compromises, continue to differ thematically from his mysteries set in 1950s Dublin. However, as Black's "Quirke novels" have met with a wider following than his
. Benjamin Black is the pen name of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville. The author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed series of Quirke novelsincluding Christine Falls, A Death in Summer, and Vengeancehe lives in Dublin
Phoebe, meanwhile, comes under the spell of Jimmy’s alluring and alarming twin, Sally. Not only is he wracked by guilt over his inability to express love, his grip on reality is slipping under an onslaught of disorienting hallucinations and anguished memories of his boyhood abuse by priests. The ensuing investigation is as slow and sticky as molasses as Quirke and shrewd if grubby Inspector Hackett visit an imperious priest at the spooky Trinity Manor and an almost mythological tinker encampment. The sixth installment begins with the gruesome murder of Phoebe’s friend, pint-sized reporter Jimmy Minor, a key character in the earlier books. Quirke is in a bad way. --Donna Seaman . From Booklist Postwar, corruption-laced Dublin i