# The Lock-Up: A Detective Mystery - Hardcover

by **John Banville** (Author)

**\*NATIONAL BESTSELLER\*  
A _New York Times_ Editors' Choice  
  
Booker Prize winner and "Irish master"** **(_The New Yorker_) John Banville's 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 it's the victim's older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case.  
  
One of Rosa's 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 case--and everyone involved--in peril, including Quirke's 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 world's most celebrated authors.

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1.08 x 9.27 x 6.32 IN

**Publication Date:** May 23, 2023

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