The LockUp, John Banville
The LockUp, John Banville
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The Lock-Up
A Novel

Author: John Banville

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 8 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/23/2023


Synopsis

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
A New York Times Editors' Choice

Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s 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 it’s the victim’s older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case.

One of Rosa’s 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 case—and everyone involved—in peril, including Quirke’s 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 world’s most celebrated authors.

About John Banville

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 novels written under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ceecee on March 11, 2023

DI Strafford, Dublin Garda Dr Quirke, Pathologist Dublin, 1958. A young woman is found dead in her car in a lock-up; a German exile on a large estate in Wicklow, and the exiles son. Is there a connection between the three and with events further afield? Strafford is assigned the case and Dr Quirke do......more

Goodreads review by Linda on September 03, 2023

3.5 Ireland- In the early 1950s, just after the end of World War II, Rosa Jacobs, a 27-year-old graduate student at Trinity College, is found asphyxiated in her car at her lock-up (parking garage) outside Dublin in what looks like a suicide. However, Medical Pathologist Dr. Quirke finds marks on Rosa......more

Goodreads review by Lewis on September 26, 2023

I give this book a 5***** rating even though I was left totally confused by the Epilogue. I thought the story, which was brilliantly conceived and told, was over. I guess I have to re-read the Epilogue, unless another reader can enlighten me. OK. I re-read the Epilogue and figured out who was writing......more

Goodreads review by Stacey on November 01, 2023

Oh, how I love John Banville novels! ❤️ 1950, Dublin: Rosa Jacobs, a young Jewish history scholar, is found dead in her car, located in a lock-up (a secure place for motorists to keep their vehicles). First deemed a suicide, renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford finds evidence th......more