Wholesale The Drowned : John Banville

Paperback FICTION / Thrillers / Historical From the renowned Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author of Snow comes 'an affecting literary thriller' ( Wall Street Journa l) about a woman s sudden disappearance in a small coastal town in Ireland, where nothing is as it seems "John Banville is one of my favorite writers alive, and I pick up his books whenever I need a reminder how to write a good sentence."— R.F. Kuang 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. But as the case unfolds, events from the past resurface that may have life-altering ramifications for all involved. At once a searing mystery and a profound meditation on the hidden worlds we all inhabit, The Drowned is the next great Strafford and Quirke novel from a beloved writer at the top of his game.