Asher Grey is Victorian London's only consulting exorcist. Beneath the surface of the physical world is the realm of the mystical and unnatural-the things that go bump in the night. Sorting these things out is Asher's calling. If only he could manage to get a paying client or two. When Asher is called to perform an exorcism on an asylum patient, he quickly realizes this is not a typical case; the thing possessing the patient threatens the imminent...

Detective Inspector Hackett and Quirkie, an old friend with unusual access to Dublin's elite, become caught up in a web of intrigue and violence when they set out to investigate the death of newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell, who was found dead of a shotgun blast that could be suicide or murder.

"Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is a brain tumor. A specialist diagnoses an old head injury caused by a savage beating; all that's needed, the doctor declares, is an extended rest. But Quirke, ever intent on finding his place among the living, is not about to retire. One night during a June heat wave, a car crashes into a tree in central...

When the body of his daughter's friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Irish Church and State.--

When Quirke travels to the coast of San Sebastian, Spain for some relaxation, he sees a woman who he believes had been murdered by her brother several years prior.