by Benjamin Black · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420418834
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«Órdenes sagradas» is the crime novel by Benjamin Black, published by Alfaguara in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
Jimmy Minor's body is found floating in a Dublin canal, and Dr. Quirke, along with his daughter Phoebe, is drawn into an investigation that stirs up his past. Phoebe discovers an unknown sensuality while Quirke returns to the Catholic orphanage of Carricklea and the walls of Trinity Manor, where secrets lurk that threaten to destroy him.
It is the sixth installment of the Quirke series, written by Benjamin Black, pseudonym of John Banville.
For readers of crime fiction set in Dublin and of police sagas with complex characters and social and historical background.
William John Banville is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. A former member of Aosdána, he voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer.
