No Crime Is Ever Truly Buried...Visceral, gritty and cinematic, Even the Dead is
the latest stylish thriller from John Banville's crime-writing alter ego, Benja
min Black. Pathologist Quirke works in the city morgue, watching over Dublin's d
ead. The latest to join their ghostly ranks is a suicide.
But something doesn
't add up. The victim has a suspicious head wound, and the only witness has vani
shed, every trace of her wiped away. On the trail of the missing woman, Quirke f
inds himself drawn into the shadowy world of Dublin's elite - secret societies,
High Church politics and corrupt politicians.