Bestselling author Benjamin Black turns his eye to sixteenth century Prague and a story of murder, magic and the dark art of wielding extraordinary powerChristian Stern, an ambitious young scholar and alchemist, arrives in Prague in the bitter winter of 1599, intent on making his fortune at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, the eccentric Rudolf II. The night of his arrival, drunk and lost, Christian stumbles upon the body of a young woman in Golden Lane, an alle...

"When you're done binge-watching The Crown, pick up this multifaceted wartime thriller."—Kirkus ReviewsAs London endures nightly German bombings, Britain’s secret service whisks the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret from England, seeking safety for the young royals on an old estate in Ireland.Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside...

Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe returns in The Black-Eyed Blonde—also published as Marlowe as by John Banville—the basis for the major motion picture starring Liam Neeson as the iconic detective."Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling . . . I loved this book. It was like having an old friend, one you assumed was dead, walk into the room."—Stephen King"It was one of those Tuesday afternoons in

Originally a novella published in The New York Times MagazineThe first stand-alone thriller from the Booker Prize–winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The Silver SwanShifting from 1950s Dublin to contemporary New York, the masterful crime writer Benjamin Black returns in this standalone thriller--a story of family secrets so deep, and so dange...

When the body of his daughter’s friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Catholic Church, in one of The Wall Street Journal’s “Ten Best Mysteries of the Year.”1950s Dublin. A battered body discovered floating in a canal is quickly identified as Jimmy Minor, an up-and-coming in...

Asher Grey is Victorian London's only consulting exorcist. Beneath the surface of the physical world is the realm of the mystical and unnatural-the things that go bump in the night. Sorting these things out is Asher's calling. If only he could manage to get a paying client or two.When Asher is called to perform an exorcism on an asylum patient, he quickly realizes this is not a typical case; the thing possessing the patient threatens the imminent arrival of a dark entity. Suddenly,...

Quirke finds himself at the center of a deadly intergenerational feud in the latest novel from Booker Prize-winning "literary polymath" (The New York Times) John BanvilleTwo men go sailing off the coast of Ireland. Only one comes back, claiming the other shot himself. But Detective Inspector Hackett and his friend Quirke aren’t so sure…The dead man is the patriarch of the powerful Delahaye family; the survivor is the scion of the Clancy family, the...

Quirke returns in the third volume of John Banville’s celebrated seriesA junior doctor at a local hospital, April Latimer is a scandalous presence in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin: the independently-minded scion of a well-connected family, she has decidedly unconventional taste in men. When she vanishes, her friend Phoebe fears the worst—and calls on her father, forensic pathologist Quirke, for help.Sober again after intens...

A powerful man's suspicious suicide has Dublin on a boil in the fourth Quirke volume, named one of the Chicago Tribune's Best Reads of the YearOn 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 a...

Quirke'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” (The Washington Post)Perhaps 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 tha...

Winner of the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing in 2023'This book will stay with me for years.' ADAM KAY, author of This is Going to Hurt'Black puts a human and profoundly humane face on what it's like to be a doctor.' FORBES'A brilliant, painful and honest book. Read it.' MARY HARPER, BBC Africa Editor'Benjamin Black has the most amazing gift for telling a story. I coul...

**“Boutsikaris does a standout job. . . . Thug or cop, heiress or moll, he gives them all distinct voices that fit well with the book's Chandleresque prose and dialogue.” —Publishers Weekly“Dennis Boutsikaris narrates with marvelous aplomb. He nails the cool but inviting tone, the clipped tempo, the razor and the velvet of such a tale. . . . This is a perfect weekend listen.” —AudioFileRaymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe returns in award-winning author John ...