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  • Even the Dead

  • A Quirke Mystery, Book 7
  • By: Benjamin Black
  • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
  • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (36 ratings)

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Summary

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Even the Dead by Benjamin Black.

Down among the dead men...

Pathologist Quirke works in the city morgue, watching over Dublin's dead. 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 vanished, every trace of her wiped away.

On the trail of the missing woman, Quirke finds himself drawn into the shadowy world of Dublin's elite - secret societies, High Church politics and corrupt politicians. It leads him to a long-buried conspiracy that involves his own family. But it's too late to go back now....

The dead will be heard.

©2015 Benjamin Black (P)2015 Penguin Audio
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Another great book by Black

Another very enjoyable book following the adventures of Quirke and Hackett. The strings of the past six books are being pulled together.

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Excellent

This was my favourite so far of the Quirke audiobook series, the reader was new in the series, and thankfully is finally an Irish actor, who captured the characters' voices so well, especially Quirke's moody persona, and was able to pronounce place names correctly too. I listened to this in 2 days, can't wait for the next one, would recommend.

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The writing is a joy

So much more than a detective story. It’s life on the page with warts and all.

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Life, all its cruelties and yet...

Excellent with a brilliant narrator and a story that is slow to move into higher gears but goes on an unexpected roller coaster of a ride. Quirk, with his mental problems sees the world in a very unusual and lyrical way that gives an uncommon yet painterly view of life. The characters as seen by him are remote and distant but the story is vivid in its descriptions and has a very visual quality. Dublin and the Ireland of the 1950s is well drawn.

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