The Lock-Up: A Detective Mystery

A must-read mystery to curl up with this fall *NATIONAL BESTSELLER* A New York Times Editors' Choice Booker Prize winner and Irish master (The New Yorker) John Banvilles 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 its the victims older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case. One of Rosas 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 caseand everyone involvedin peril, including Quirkes 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 worlds most celebrated authors.