{"product_id":"9781335449634","title":"The Lock-Up","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Editors' Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBooker Prize winner and “Irish master”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning the mountaintops of Italy, the front lines of World War II Bavaria, the gritty streets of Dublin and other unexpected locales, \u003cem\u003eThe Lock-Up\u003c\/em\u003e is an ambitious and arresting mystery by one of the world’s most celebrated authors.","brand":"John Banville","offers":[{"title":"Hanover Square Press |  Hardback  |  2023-05-23","offer_id":44151482482943,"sku":"9781335449634","price":37.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_9ca2f115-a083-4536-b27e-e8550b852964.jpg?v=1680978766","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781335449634","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}