Audio Book Description:
Two years have passed since theevents of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublinpathologist. His beloved Sarah is dead, the Judge lies in a convent hospital paralyzed by a devastating stroke, and Phoebe,Quirke`s long-denied daughter,has grown increasingly withdrawn and isolated. With much to regret from his last inquisitive foray, Quirke ought to know better than to let his curiosityget the best of him. Yet when an almost-forgotten acquaintance comes to him about his beautiful young wife`s apparent suicide, Quirke`s "old itch tocut into the quick of things, to delve into the dark of what was hidden" is roused again. As he begins to probe furtherinto the shadowy circumstancesof Deirdre Hunt`s death, he discovers many things that might better have remained hidden, as well as grave dangerto those he loves.
