The Drowned: A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery

The Drowned: A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery

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.

John  Banville

• Faber & Faber
• 9780571370832
• 352 pages
• Paperback
• United Kingdom
• Crime & mystery