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A Death in Summer

A Death in Summer

Banville, John
Black, Benjamin

Paperback

Series: Quirke, Book 4

Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 125042125X
ISBN13: 9781250421258
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: Oct 21 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

A powerful man's suspicious suicide has Dublin on a boil in the fourth Quirke volume, named one of the Chicago Tribune's Best Reads of the Year

On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell--known to his many enemies as Diamond Dick--is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast. But is it suicide or murder? For help with the investigation, Detective Inspector Hackett calls in his old friend Quirke, who has an unusual level of access to Dublin's elite.

Jewell's coolly elegant French wife, Françoise, seems less than shocked by her husband's death. But Dannie, Jewell's high-strung sister, is devastated, and Quirke is surprised to learn that in her grief she has turned to an unexpected friend: David Sinclair, Quirke's ambitious assistant in the pathology lab at the Hospital of the Holy Family. To complicate things further, an unlikely romance has begun to blossom between Sinclair and Quirke's fractious daughter Phoebe. As a record heat wave envelops the city and the secrets underlying Diamond Dick's empire come to light, Quirke and Hackett find themselves caught up in a dark maze of intrigue and violence that threatens to end in disaster.

Tightly plotted and gorgeously written, A Death in Summer is John Banville at his thrilling best.

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