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The Drowned

Author(s): John Banville

Location(s): Ireland

Genre(s): Historical, Thriller

Era(s): 1950s

A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery

The richly atmospheric new Strafford and Quirke murder mystery, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Snow.
He had seen drowned people. A sight not to be forgotten.

1950s, rural Ireland. A loner comes across a mysteriously empty car in a field. Knowing he shouldn’t approach, but unable to hold back, he soon finds himself embroiled in a troubling missing person’s case, as a husband claims his wife may have thrown herself into the sea.

Called in from Dublin to investigate is Detective Inspector Strafford, who soon turns to his old ally – the flawed but brilliant pathologist Quirke – a man he is linked to in increasingly complicated ways.

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