Returning to the morgue where he works after an office party, Dublin pathologist Quirke stumbles across a body that should not have been there, a young woman named Christine Falls, as well as
his brother-in-law, eminent pediatrician Malachy Griffin, altering a file to cover up the corpse's cause of death. By the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.