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*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
A New York Times Editors' Choice
Booker Prize winner and "Irish master" (The New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery
In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford begin to investigate the death as a murder, but it's the victim's older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case.
One of Rosa's friends, it turns out, is from a powerful German family that arrived in Ireland under mysterious circumstances shortly after World War II. But as Quirke and Strafford close in, their personal lives may put the case--and everyone involved--in peril, including Quirke's own daughter.
Spanning the mountaintops of Italy, the front lines of World War II Bavaria, the gritty streets of Dublin and other unexpected locales, The Lock-Up is an ambitious and arresting mystery by one of the world's most celebrated authors.
A New York Times Editors' Choice
Booker Prize winner and "Irish master" (The New Yorker) John Banville's most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery
In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford begin to investigate the death as a murder, but it's the victim's older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case.
One of Rosa's friends, it turns out, is from a powerful German family that arrived in Ireland under mysterious circumstances shortly after World War II. But as Quirke and Strafford close in, their personal lives may put the case--and everyone involved--in peril, including Quirke's own daughter.
Spanning the mountaintops of Italy, the front lines of World War II Bavaria, the gritty streets of Dublin and other unexpected locales, The Lock-Up is an ambitious and arresting mystery by one of the world's most celebrated authors.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Elegant...with finely wrought moments that make you want to slow down to savor them."--New York Times Book Review "Another worthy thriller from the Irish master novelist."--Kirkus "Strikingly beautiful prose...Banville's complete mastery of mood wins the day."--Booklist "A haunting and memorable experience."--New York Journal of Books "Banville at his best...a novel that will have his readers hooked."--Financial Times
"The Lock-Up is to be relished above all for its richly realised characters, and their understanding of the vagaries of human nature."―Scotsman
"The ultimate page-turner, expertly paced and beautifully written."―Irish Independent
"A hypnotic thriller. . . with prose this lush and mordantly funny, it's a shame it has to end."― Sunday Business Post Praise for John Banville "John Banville is one of my favorite writers alive, and I pick up his books whenever I need a reminder how to write a good sentence." --R.F. Kuang "The Irish master." --New Yorker "One of the best novelists in English." --The Guardian "John Banville deserves his Booker Prize." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "A grand writer with a seductive style." --New York Times Book Review "Banville is a master at capturing the most fleeting memory or excruciating twinge of self-awareness with riveting accuracy." --People "Prodigiously gifted. He cannot write an unpolished phrase." --The Independent "[Banville's] books are like baroque cathedrals." --Paris Review "One periodically rereads a [Banville] sentence just to marvel at its beauty." --USA TODAY
"The Lock-Up is to be relished above all for its richly realised characters, and their understanding of the vagaries of human nature."―Scotsman
"The ultimate page-turner, expertly paced and beautifully written."―Irish Independent
"A hypnotic thriller. . . with prose this lush and mordantly funny, it's a shame it has to end."― Sunday Business Post Praise for John Banville "John Banville is one of my favorite writers alive, and I pick up his books whenever I need a reminder how to write a good sentence." --R.F. Kuang "The Irish master." --New Yorker "One of the best novelists in English." --The Guardian "John Banville deserves his Booker Prize." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "A grand writer with a seductive style." --New York Times Book Review "Banville is a master at capturing the most fleeting memory or excruciating twinge of self-awareness with riveting accuracy." --People "Prodigiously gifted. He cannot write an unpolished phrase." --The Independent "[Banville's] books are like baroque cathedrals." --Paris Review "One periodically rereads a [Banville] sentence just to marvel at its beauty." --USA TODAY
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Hanover Square Press
Pub date:
2024-09-03
Length:
320 pages
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