His books are so intensely imagined and freshly observed, with a startling image or insight on every page, that story almost ceases Benjamin Black, Author, John Banville, Author, Timothy Dalton ...
Near the eerie start of “The Drowned,” John Banville’s latest psychological ... their hemophiliac child—summon the police.
In this expertly paced debut thriller from Irish author Black (the pseudonym of Booker Prize–winner John Banville), pathologist Garret Quirke uncovers a web of corruption in 1950s Dublin ...