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Quirke

Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, who was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His novels have won numerous awards, most recently the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea. He lives in Dublin.

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Quirke is a surly pathologist in 1950s Dublin. Stumbling on a coverup, he finds himself investigating a vast plot--even though it puts him in danger. Black vividly evokes the historical setting in these intricate and psychologically complex thrillers.

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A Death in Summer

A Novel

Quirke #4

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One of The Chicago Tribune's Best Reads of 2011. One of Dublin's most powerful men meets a violent end—and an acknowledged master of crime fiction delivers...

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Elegy for April

A Novel

Quirke #3

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The New York Times Bestselling Author of Christine Falls April Latimer, a junior doctor at a local hospital, is something of a scandal in the conservative and...

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The Silver Swan

A Novel

Quirke #2

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It has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world to an irascible Dublin pathologist named Quirke....

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Christine Falls

A Novel

Quirke #1

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The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the morgue...

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Vengeance

A Novel

Quirke

Benjamin Black Henry Holt and Co.

A bizarre suicide leads to a scandal and then still more blood, as one of our most brilliant crime novelists reveals a world where money and sex trump...

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