A midnight phone call precipitates an aging, embittered agent into a dash to Iran to find his son and do battle with competing international interests.
The melancholic pathologist Quirke and the Dublin detective St. John Stafford find themselves at work in a sun-dappled San Sebastián. Previously Banville published the Quirke crime series p... read more
A body is discovered in the grounds of Chernobyl, apparently murdered in the hours before the explosion... The radioactive exclusion zone is a suitably disturbing setting for the pursuit of ... read more