Quirke

The Quirke series of crime novels, written by Irish novelist John Banville under the pen name Benjamin Black, centres on the titular character, a pathologist in 1950s Dublin. The series is published by Henry Holt & Co. in the US. The first novel, Christine Falls, was first released by Picador in the UK in 2006; it was published in the US a year later. Banville has stated that he drew from his experiences when he first moved to Dublin to inform the Quirke series: The final novel in the series, April in Spain, features the character St. John Strafford, who is also a character in other Banville works. Television adaptation