Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary Dublin pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man whom he once admired is dying, while the daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept him as her father. When Billy Hunt, an acquaintance from college days, approaches him about his wife's apparent suicide, Quirke recognises trouble but, as always, trouble is something he cannot resist. Slowly he is drawn into a twilight world of drug addiction, sexual obsession, blackmail and murder, a world in which even the redoubtable Inspector Hackett can offer him few directions.
- ISBN10 0805081534
- ISBN13 9780805081534
- Publish Date 4 March 2008 (first published 2 November 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 July 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Henry Holt & Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 290
- Language English