The Lock-Up
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A New York Times Editors' Choice
Booker Prize winner and âIrish masterâ (The New Yorker) John Banvilleâs 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 itâs the victimâs older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case.
One of Rosaâs 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 caseâand everyone involvedâin peril, including Quirkeâs 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 worldâs most celebrated authors.
A New York Times Editors' Choice
Booker Prize winner and âIrish masterâ (The New Yorker) John Banvilleâs 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 itâs the victimâs older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case.
One of Rosaâs 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 caseâand everyone involvedâin peril, including Quirkeâs 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 worldâs most celebrated authors.
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*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
A New York Times Editors' Choice
Booker Prize winner and âIrish masterâ (The New Yorker) John Banvilleâs 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 itâs the victimâs older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case.
One of Rosaâs 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 caseâand everyone involvedâin peril, including Quirkeâs 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 worldâs most celebrated authors.
A New York Times Editors' Choice
Booker Prize winner and âIrish masterâ (The New Yorker) John Banvilleâs 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 itâs the victimâs older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case.
One of Rosaâs 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 caseâand everyone involvedâin peril, including Quirkeâs 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 worldâs most celebrated authors.
