Holy orders : a Quirke novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0805094407
- ISBN: 9780805094404
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Physical Description:
288 pages ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2013.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | When the body of his daughter's friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Irish Church and State.-- |
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Subject: | Catholic Church Fiction Police Ireland Dublin Fiction Pathologists Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Dublin (Ireland) Fiction |
Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Psychological fiction. Mystery fiction. |
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- 22 of 22 copies available at Bibliomation.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F BLACK B (Text) | 32544072292518 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | MYS BLACK (Text) | 34030128986566 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | F/BLACK MYST. (Text) | 34029129608849 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | MYS BLACK (Text) | 34000080786700 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | MYS BAN (Text)
Series: Quirke, 6
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34014129042710 | Adult Mystery | Available | - |
Derby Public Library | FIC BLA (Text) | 34047128388270 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Douglas Library - North Canaan | F BLA (Text) | 33490002520611 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | FIC BLACK,B (Text) | 34026128298887 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | FIC BLA (Text) | 34055131980868 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | FIC BLA Quirke Bk.6 (Text) | 33430123042467 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Holy Orders
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Summary
Holy Orders
When the body of his daughter's friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Irish Church and State. "At first they thought it was the body of a child. Later, when they got it out of the water and saw the pubic hair and the nicotine stains on the fingers, they realized their mistake." So begins Holy Orders, the latest Quirke case set in Dublin at a moment when newspapers are censored, social conventions are strictly defined, and appalling crimes are hushed up. Why? Because in 1950s Ireland the Catholic Church controls the lives of nearly everyone. But when Quirke's daughter Phoebe loses her close friend Jimmy Minor to murder, Quirke can no longer play by the Church's rules. Along with Inspector Hackett, his sometime partner, Quirke investigates Jimmy's death and learns just how far the Church and its supporters will go to protect their own interests. Haunting, fierce, and brilliantly plotted, this is Benjamin Black writing at the top of his form. His inimitable creation, the endlessly curious Quirke, brings a pathologist's unique understanding of death to unlock the most dangerous of secrets.