New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Picador
08 Oct-Dec
New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From
Picador
OCT-DEC 08
Benjamin Black
The Silver Swan
Pbk published November 2008 by Picador at £7.99
ISBN: 0330454080
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Martin Edwards
- author of the highly acclaimed Harry Devlin Mysteries
Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary Dublin pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man whom he once admired is dying, while the daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept him as her father. When Billy Hunt, an acquaintance from college days, approaches him about his wife's apparent suicide, Quirke recognises trouble but, as always, trouble is something he cannot resist. Slowly he is drawn into a twilight world of drug addiction, sexual obsession, blackmail and murder, a world in which even the redoubtable Inspector Hackett can offer him few directions.
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Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, who was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. His novels have won numerous awards, including the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea. He lives in Dublin.
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Benjamin Black
The Lemur
Published October 2008 by Picador at £12.99
ISBN: 0330461257
William 'Big Bill' Mulholland is an Irish-American electronics billionaire. An ex-CIA operative, he now heads up the Mulholland Trust, with the help of his daughter Louise. When he gets wind of a hostile biography planned for him by the investigative journalist Wilson Cleaver, he commissions his daughter's husband, John Glass, to pen the official line. But Glass' young researcher tries to blackmail him, and Glass is horrified, fearing that his own secrets, as well as the Mulhollands', are at risk. He slings him off the project, only to hear from the NYPD that the man he has nicknamed 'the Lemur' has been found fatally shot ...Silence cannot be bought - even by one of New York's wealthiest families. Riddled with explosive secrets,
"The Lemur" is a brilliant contemporary thriller that sees Benjamin Black at the top of his game.
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