Quirke: A Death in Summer : A Novel (Series #4) (Paperback)

from IreneF

"Benjamin Black" is the pen name taken by Booker Prize-winning Irish author John Banville for a series of mystery novels, all but one of them featuring the pathologist Dr. Quirke, a lumbering black hole of a man given to dulling his internal void with alcohol. As such, you would expect the books ...

from jfurshong

One of the pleasures for serious readers of mysteries is the continuation of a series over the years, a pleasure not available to the mainstream fiction reader. The detective, and sometimes other key characters, age over time and you have this wonderful sense of moving through life in tandem with...

from bcquinnsmom

It was a drowsy day in summer, a perfect day for a death: "When word got about that Richard Jewell had been found with the greater part of his head blown off and clutching a shotgun in his bloodless hands, few outside the family circle and few inside it, either, considered his demise a cause for ...

from gypsysmom

Benjamin Black is a pen name for Booker Award-winning novelist John Banville. I enjoyed Banville's book The Sea and I have a special fondness for novels set in Ireland so I thought I would give this book a whirl. Newspaper magnate Richard Jewell was found dead in his home office apparently of a s...

from McHenrysPlace

Having enjoyed Banville's forage into Chandler's World with a "new" Philip Marlow novel, "The Black-Eyed Blonde", I decided to give Banville's "Quirke" series a try. After all, it was obvious in The Black-Eyes Blonde, Banville was no slouch as a writer and, more evidence of this is that Banville ...