Benjamin Black: 35 books

"Als würde ein alter, tot geglaubter Freund plötzlich den Raum betreten" Stephen King In diesem packenden Roman erweckt John Banville alias Benjamin Black den berühmtesten Privatdetektiv der Weltliteratur, Philip Marlowe, wieder zum Leben. Eine meisterliche Mimikry, die Krimifans auf...

In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office...

Quirke—the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist—is back, and he's determined to find his daughter's best friend, a well-connected young doctor April Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal...

A suspicious death, a pregnant woman suddenly gone missing: Quirke's latest case leads him inexorably toward the dark machinations of an old foe Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause...

Una de las primeras cosas que el joven inspector Strafford detecta al empezar a investigar la muerte del reverendo Lawless es el carácter novelesco, como de obra de Agatha Christie, del escenario y los personajes que tiene ante él: el cadáver hallado en la biblioteca de la mansión de los Osborne,...

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 Irish Church and State. "At first they thought it was the body of a child. Later, when they got it out of the water and saw...

The inimitable Quirke returns in another spellbinding crime novel, in which a young woman's dubious suicide sets off a new string of hazards and deceptions Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking...

A new thriller from the Booker Prize–winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable. He's given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of his father-in-law, communications magnate...

As 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...

Quando Phoebe Griffin, ainda angustiada pelos horrores do seu passado, é incapaz de obter notícias sobre a amiga April, seu pai, Garret Quirke, recém-saído de uma clínica de reabilitação, resolve ajudá-la. Phoebe, Quirke e o inspetor Hackett logo percebem que pode haver algo mais por trás...

O leitor vai matar saudade. Philip Marlowe, um dos maiores detetives da história da literatura policial criado pelo norte-americano Raymond Chandler, está de volta. Ressuscitado em A loura de olhos negros, ele continua um sentimental e um solitário, espécie de "cavaleiro andante" moderno, a bordo...

"Man erliegt dem zwielichtigen Charme Nachkriegs-Dublins und riecht förmlich den Zigarettenrauch und das irische Bier." Times Literary Supplement Der unnachahmliche Quirke kehrt zurück – in einem neuen Roman von John Banville alias Benjamin Black, in dem der Pathologe durch einen dubiosen...

Ein fesselnder und spannender Whodunit" Publishers Weekly Die junge Ärztin April ist verschwunden. Ihre Freunde machen sich Sorgen, denn es sieht ihr so gar nicht ähnlich, sich tagelang nicht zu melden. Ist April etwas zugestoßen?Während der Pathologe Quirke, der bereits in den ersten beiden Kriminalromanen...

Nichts bleibt ungesühnt. Der Multimilliardär und Ex-CIA-Agent William Big Bill Mulholland will seine Memoiren schreiben lassen. John Glass, ehemaliger Journalist und Mulhollands Schwiegersohn, nimmt den Auftrag nur widerwillig an. Er engagiert einen Detektiv, der Nachforschungen anstellen soll....