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Holy Orders

Quirke, Book 6

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Holy Orders

By: Benjamin Black
Narrated by: John Keating
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Holy Orders is the sixth entry in the Quirke Mysteries, an enthralling literary crime series set in 1950s Dublin from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Now major TV series: Quirke, starring Gabriel Byrne and Michael Gambon. Read by John Keating.

She looked at him and smiled sadly. ‘You’ve lived too long among the dead, Quirke,’ she said.

He nodded. ‘Yes, I suppose I have.’ She was not the first one to have told him that, and she would not be the last.

When a body is found in the canal, pathologist Quirke and Inspector Hackett are tasked with uncovering the truth behind this brutal murder. But, in a world where the police are not trusted and secrets often remain buried, there is perhaps little hope of bringing the perpetrator to justice. As spring storms descend on Dublin, Quirke and Hackett’s investigation will lead them into the dark heart of the organisation that really runs this troubled city: the church.

While their investigation proceeds, Quirke’s daughter Phoebe realizes that she is being followed. And for Quirke, as his terrible childhood in a priest-run orphanage returns to haunt him, he must face his greatest trial yet . . .

©2013 Benjamin Black (P)2014 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd Crime Fiction Fiction Historical Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Crime Suspense

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I love the Quirke series but this one is a disaster as an audio book. John Keating’s bizarre and grating voices smother us with cartoon oirish that in the end makes it unbearable. Gave up with three and a half hours to go.

A decent story ruined

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I didn't share the negative feedback about the accents in the reading They did note spoil my enjoyment of the book

Engaging

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This reader really ruined the book for me. He was unable to undertake any Irish accent and so resorted to a combination of stage Dublin and a bizarre attempt at a Belfast accent for characters who according to the story would not have had such an accent. His attempt to represent the speech of the Irish travelling community was insulting to them. Why could an Irish actor not be employed?

Engaging book spoiled by poor readery

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