The Drowned

by John Banville

• Hardback
• 352 pages
  
• Signed by the author

THE BRAND NEW STRAFFORD AND QUIRKE MURDER MYSTERY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW. A CHILLING MUST-READ.

'Banville is one of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG

'Haunting . . . compelling.' DAILY MAIL

'Richly atmospheric.' IRISH INDEPENDENT

'Suspenseful.' OBSERVER

'The repressed and sinister world of 1950s Ireland is exposed in beautiful, sometimes chilling prose.' FINANCIAL TIMES

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.