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The lock-up : a novel / John Banville.
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 the lives of everyone involved, in peril, including Quirke's own daughter.
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- ISBN: 9781335449634
- ISBN: 1335449639
- Physical Description: 315 pages ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
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| General Note: | Previous titles in the Quirke series published under Benjamin Black, a pen name of John Banville. |
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| Subject: | Quirke (Fictitious character : Black) > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Pathologists > Fiction. Police > Fiction. Dublin (Ireland) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Poplar Bluff - Main Library | FIC BANVILLE (Text) | 38420101798664 | FICTION | Available | - |
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The Lock-Up : A Novel
*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.
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