{"title":"Benjamin Black","description":"JOHN BANVILLE was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of numerous novels, including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize, and the DI Quirke mysteries. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature, and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain's most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin.","products":[{"product_id":"even-the-dead-paperback","title":"Even the Dead - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuirke's latest case leads him inexorably toward the dark machinations of an old foe, in this mystery from \"one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Dublin pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is a brain tumor. A specialist diagnoses an old head injury caused by a savage beating; all that's needed is an extended rest. But when a body turns up, any possibility of that vanishes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe corpse, discovered in a crashed car one hot June night, is assumed to be the victim of an accident or a suicide, but Quirke's examination of the body leads him to believe otherwise. Then his daughter Phoebe gets a mysterious visit from an acquaintance, who later disappears. Before long, Quirke and his old friend Inspector Hackett find themselves deep in a shadowy world where one of the city's most powerful men uses the cover of politics and religion to make obscene profits.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101132624095,"sku":"9781250421586","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OrpWlGCQSs9781250421586.webp?v=1781068321"},{"product_id":"holy-orders-paperback","title":"Holy Orders - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen the body of his daughter's friend \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eplunged into a world of corruption that \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003etakes him to the darkest corners of the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatholic Church, in one of \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal's\u003c\/i\u003e \"Ten Best Mysteries of the Year.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1950s Dublin. A battered body discovered floating in a canal is quickly identified as Jimmy Minor, an up-and-coming investigative journalist for the \u003ci\u003eClarion \u003c\/i\u003eand a good friend to Phoebe, the daughter of pathologist Quirke. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDetermined to find Jimmy's killer, Quirke enlists his sometime partner, Inspector Hackett. As they dig deeper into the stories Jimmy was pursuing and the secrets he was poised to reveal, and Quirke is haunted by the memories of his own grim childhood in a priest-run orphanage, the two men will see just how far the Church and its supporters will go to protect their own interests.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101181022431,"sku":"9781250421579","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/c3LD9NjkCx9781250421579.webp?v=1781068418"},{"product_id":"a-death-in-summer-paperback","title":"A Death in Summer - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful man's suspicious suicide has Dublin on a boil in the fourth Quirke volume, named one of the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune's \u003c\/i\u003eBest Reads of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell--known to his many enemies as Diamond Dick--is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast. But is it suicide or murder? For help with the investigation, Detective Inspector Hackett calls in his old friend Quirke, who has an unusual level of access to Dublin's elite. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJewell's coolly elegant French wife, Françoise, seems less than shocked by her husband's death. But Dannie, Jewell's high-strung sister, is devastated, and Quirke is surprised to learn that in her grief she has turned to an unexpected friend: David Sinclair, Quirke's ambitious assistant in the pathology lab at the Hospital of the Holy Family. To complicate things further, an unlikely romance has begun to blossom between Sinclair and Quirke's fractious daughter Phoebe. 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