"Propulsive... [Vengeance] will keep you turning pages."-The Los Angeles TimesIt's a fine day for a sail, and Victor Delahaye, one of Ireland's most successful businessmen, takes his boat far out to sea-then kills himself in front of his...

"Christine Falls" ist ein Kriminalroman von Benjamin Black, dem Pseudonym des irischen Autors John Banville. Die Geschichte spielt in den 1950er Jahren und folgt Quirke, einem Pathologen in Dublin, der nach einer durchzechten Nacht auf...

The Secret Guests von Black, Benjamin

Now a major TV series: Quirke starring Gabriel Byrne. When newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead at his country estate, clutching a shotgun in his lifeless hands, few see his demise as cause for sorrow. But before long Doctor...

Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde . . .It is the early 1950s. In Los Angeles,...

"Der Lemur" von Benjamin Black ist ein Kriminalroman, der die Geschichte von John Glass erzählt, einem ehemaligen Journalisten, der in New York lebt. Er wird von seinem reichen Schwiegervater beauftragt, eine Biografie über ihn zu...

"Der silberne Schwan" ist der zweite Band in Benjamin Blacks Krimireihe um den Pathologen Quirke, der in Dublin ermittelt. In diesem Roman wird Quirke von Billy Hunt, einem alten Bekannten, gebeten, die Untersuchung des Todes von Hunts...

The new Quirke novel from John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. 1950s Ireland. As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished. When Phoebe Griffin, still haunted by the horrors of her past, is...

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...

Die Blonde mit den schwarzen Augen von Black, Benjamin

Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, who was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fifteen novels, including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN...

Why would suicide need a witness? On the east coast of Ireland, Victor Delahaye, one of the country's most prominent citizens, takes his business partner's son out sailing. But once at sea, Davy Clancy is horrified to witness Delahaye...