On a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: his s...

Dublin of the 50s. A city whose quiet streets sometimes resemble a labyrinth of cruel and dark secrets. Here robberies and murders occur every day, and human...

Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career."It was ...

Raymond Chandler's incomparable private detective returns, embroiled in the most difficult and dangerous case of his career by a seductive young heiress. “It...

Nominee for the Booker Prize in 1989. “Clues,” a novel by one of the brightest representatives of modern Irish literature, John Banville, is born as a result...

The classic of modern Irish literature John Banville (b. 1945) is well known to Russian readers with his novels “Athena”, “Clues”, “Untouchable”.... Eclipses...

A suspicious death, a pregnant woman suddenly gone missing: Quirke's latest case leads him inexorably toward the dark machinations of an old foe.Perhaps Q...

She looked at him and smiled sadly. ‘You’ve lived too long among the dead, Quirke,’ she said. He nodded. ‘Yes, I suppose I have.’ She was not the first on...

This is a POSTMODERN DETECTIVE. But it is an UNUSUAL detective. A detective story in which it is not necessary to know who committed the crime and why. But y...

With this latest novel, John Banville—who has forged a brilliant international reputation with such works as The Book of Evidence and The Untouchable—appl...