The Lock-Up
- Author John Banville
- Narrator Stanley Townsend
- Publisher Faber & Faber
- Publish Date 4 April 2023
- Run Time 9 hours and 21 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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'The ultimate page-turner.'
Irish Independent
'Like drinking Bollinger when your usual tipple is Babycham.'
The Times
The
Sunday Times bestselling author of
Snow and
April in Spain returns with Strafford and Quirke's most troubling case yet.
1950s Dublin. in a lock-up garage in the city, the body of a young woman is discovered - an apparent suicide. But pathologist Dr Quirke and Detective Inspector Strafford soon suspect foul play.
The victim's sister, a newspaper reporter from London, returns to Dublin to join the two men in their quest to uncover the truth. But, as they explore her links to a wealthy German family in County Wicklow, and to investigative work she may have been doing in Israel, they are confronted with an ever-deepening mystery. With relations between the two men increasingly strained, and their investigation taking them back to the final days of the Second World War, can they join the pieces of a hidden puzzle?
Praise for the Strafford and Quirke series:
'Crime writing of the finest quality, elegant, distinctive and utterly absorbing.'
Daily Mail
'[The Strafford and Quirke series] promises to elevate the crime novel to new artistic heights.'
Financial Times
'John Banville is one of the best novelists in English.'
Guardian
'Superb and shocking. . . more than a touch of genius.'
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