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Even the Dead

A Quirke Mystery

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Even the Dead

By: Benjamin Black
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Even the Dead by Benjamin Black, read by Sean Barrett.

Down among the dead men...

Pathologist Quirke works in the city morgue, watching over Dublin's dead. The latest to join their ghostly ranks is a suicide. But something doesn't add up. The victim has a suspicious head wound, and the only witness has vanished, every trace of her wiped away.

On the trail of the missing woman, Quirke finds himself drawn into the shadowy world of Dublin's elite - secret societies, High Church politics and corrupt politicians. It leads him to a long-buried conspiracy that involves his own family. But it's too late to go back now...

THE DEAD WILL BE HEARD

 Crime Thrillers Fiction Historical Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Crime Thriller

Critic Reviews

Quirke is an endearing hero and the Dublin of the 1950s - wet, cold, foggy, sinister - is evoked with harsh realism and nostalgia
Addiction, morbid sexual obsession, blackmail and murder, as well as prose as crisp as a winter's morning by the Liffey . . . Quirke is human enough to swell the hardest of hearts
With Quirke, Banville has made a fascinating addition to the ranks of the defective detective in books that combine respectful reading of the genre with brightly original writing
A requiem for a cursed city, its inhabitants' inner lives doomed to remain as locked away, unhappy and unknowable as whatever lies buried
It is doubtful that anyone can write as well as Benjamin Black when it comes to a psychological mystery
All stars
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A terrific conclusion to the Quirke stories. a masterful performance by the narrator. And many thanks to the author John banville for illuminating the horror show that was and is the Catholic Church and Ireland. All true which is horrifying.

Wonderful

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I found this book average. Thank goodness for Sean. He is terrific at performing. The story is ordinary. Well perhaps not terrible but not brilliant either.

Sean Barrett is the best

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The poetic language, the deep insights into human behaviour, great characters, and the excellent reader

Quirke

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