293 pages
English language
Published Dec. 5, 2010 by Henry Holt and Co..
293 pages
English language
Published Dec. 5, 2010 by Henry Holt and Co..
Quirke, a hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist is determined to find his daughter's best friend, a well-connected young doctor. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman. Set in Dublin, circa 1950.