Benjamin Black, Author . Holt $25 (340p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8152-7
In this expertly paced debut thriller from Irish author Black (the pseudonym of Booker Prize–winner John Banville), pathologist Garret Quirke uncovers a web of corruption in 1950s Dublin surrounding the death in childbirth of a young maid,...
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Benjamin Black, Author Holt $25 (290p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8153-4
In this stunning follow-up to 2007’s Christine Falls
, Black (pseudonym of Booker Prize–winner John Banville) spins a complex tale of murder and deception in 1950s Ireland. Pathologist Garret Quirke, surprised by a visit from a college...
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Benjamin Black, Author . Picador $13 (132p) ISBN 978-0-312-42808-2
In this excellent novella from Edgar-finalist Banville (Christine Falls
), John Glass, an Irish-born journalist living in New York, reluctantly accepts an offer from his father-in-law, William “Big Bill” Mulholland, to write the older...
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Benjamin Black. Holt, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9092-5
Black's flat fourth crime novel set in 1950s Ireland (after Elegy for April) takes Dublin pathologist Quirke to Brook-lands, the country estate of newspaper baron Richard "Diamond Dick" Jewell, whose nearly headless body is found one summer...
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Benjamin Black. Holt, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9440-4
“Love was love, and always demanded more than a lover was capable of giving.” The profound melancholy of that sentiment permeates Black’s sixth Quirke novel set in 1950s Ireland (after 2012’s Vengeance). The discovery of the badly beaten body of...
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Benjamin Black, Author, John Banville, Author, Timothy Dalton, Read by , read by Timothy Dalton. Macmillan Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0289-5
Black is better known as the Booker Prize–winning author John Banville. Timothy Dalton is better known as the guy who used to play James Bond. Their collaboration on this mystery novel, the second in Black's Quirke series, offers an...
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Benjamin Black, Author, John Keating, Read by , read by John Keating. Macmillian Audio $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0478-3
Black (aka Irish novelist John Banville) offers this stunningly dark and mysterious tale in which journalist John Glass hires a man he deems the Lemur to research his father-in-law, of whom he is writing a biography. John Keating is simply marvelous
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Benjamin Black, Author, Timothy Dalton, Read by , read by Timothy Dalton. Audio Renaissance $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4272-0072-3
Dalton uses all his pacing and vocal skills and his wonderful, deep Welsh tones to keep listeners engaged and on edge through this mystery set in 1950s Dublin and Boston. He skillfully sustains our empathy for widowed Dublin coroner Quirke, the...
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Benjamin Black, read by Timothy Dalton , Macmillan Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 9.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-0945-0
Timothy Dalton, former James Bond and longtime reader of Black's thrillers, channels his Royal Shakespeare Company roots to give life to pathologist Garret Quirk. Black (a pseudonym of Booker Prize–winner John Banville) specializes in...
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Ben Black, Author, Benjamin Black, Author . Lonely Planet $12.99 (278p) ISBN 978-1-86450-361-6
The latest in Lonely Planet's Journeys
series has one foot in the social sciences and one in the travelogue genre. First-time author Black lived and traveled in Israel for 10 years; the book follows the parallel development of Black's...
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Benjamin Black, Author . Holt $25 (293p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9091-8
Black's engrossing third crime thriller set in 1950s Dublin (after The Silver Swan
) finds pathologist Garret Quirke fresh from a stint in alcohol rehab. Quirke reluctantly agrees to help his daughter, Phoebe Griffin, with whom he has a tenuous
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Benjamin Black, Author, John Banville, Author, Miguel Martinez-Lage, Translator Alfaguara $24.99 (360p) ISBN 978-987-04-1054-6
Black, the pen name of Booker Prize-winning author John Banville (The Sea), [offers his] second atmospheric crime novel starring Quirke, a 1950s Dublin pathologist and unlikely hero. This novel opens with the death of a young woman, the owner of a...
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Benjamin Black. Holt, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9439-8
Bestseller Black’s understated but highly effective fifth crime novel featuring 1950s Dublin pathologist Quirke (after 2011’s A Death in Summer) offers a provocative whydunit. One sunny June day, Victor Delahaye takes Davy Clancy, the 24-year-old...
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Benjamin Black. Holt, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9814-3
Black (the pseudonym that John Banville uses for his crime fiction) isn’t the first to tackle the daunting challenge of recreating the distinctive narrative voice of Raymond Chandler’s world-weary, mean streets–walking L.A. private eye, Philip...
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Benjamin Black. Holt, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-62779-066-6
Irish author Black’s atmospheric eighth novel featuring 1950s Dublin pathologist Quirke (after 2013’s Holy Orders) finds a morose Quirke on sick leave and in something of a midlife crisis, convalescing as a houseguest of his adoptive brother, Mal,...
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Benjamin Black. Holt, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-62779-517-3
Black (The Black-Eyed Blonde) displays his mastery of yet another mystery subgenre in this brooding, atmospheric whodunit set in 16th-century Prague. Christian Stern, the bastard son of the Prince-Bishop of Regensburg, has arrived in that city in...
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Benjamin Black, read by John Keating. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 8 CDs, 9.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-6255-4
Reader Keating’s soft Irish voice can turn gruff and harsh on a dime in this seventh entry in Black’s series about Quirke, a consultant pathologist in 1950s Dublin. The novel begins with the doctor on sick leave at the home of his stepbrother, Mal....
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Benjamin Black, read by Dennis Boutsikaris. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-3336-3
Veteran narrator Boutsikaris turns in a mixed performance in this audio edition of Black’s resurrection of Raymond Chandler’s intrepid Bay City PI Philip Marlowe. In classic noir tradition, it all starts with a black-eyed class act walking into...
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Benjamin Black. Holt, $27 (304p) ISBN 978-1-25013-301-4
An intriguing premise can’t save this plodding what-if historical thriller from Edgar-finalist Black (Wolf on a String), the pen name of John Banville. During the Battle of Britain, with London under steady assault from German bombers, George VI...
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