Holy orders / by Benjamin Black.
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TextPublisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2013Edition: Large print editionDescription: 429 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781410463890 (hardcover); 1410463893 (hardcover)Subject(s): Police -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Fiction | Pathologists -- Fiction | Catholic Church -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Fiction | Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction | Dublin (Ireland) -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books. | Psychological fiction. | Mystery fiction. DDC classification: 823/.92 Summary: n 1950s Ireland, newspapers are censored, social conventions are strictly defined, and appalling crimes are hushed up. Why? Because the Catholic Church controls the lives of nearly everyone. But when the body of his daughter Phoebe's closest friend is brought to his autopsy table, 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.
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John Banville writing as Benjamin Black.
n 1950s Ireland, newspapers are censored, social conventions are strictly defined, and appalling crimes are hushed up. Why? Because the Catholic Church controls the lives of nearly everyone. But when the body of his daughter Phoebe's closest friend is brought to his autopsy table, 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.
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