@ Edicions Bromera, 2013
Like the previous four crime novels written by Banville under his pseudonym Benjamin Black, Vengeance conjures Dublin in the 1950s, but it begins in Slievemore, at the shared summer resort of the Delahaye and Clancy families. Victor Delahaye, one of Ireland's most successful businessmen, invites Davy Clancy, the son of his ambitious, womanizing buisness partner, to go sailing with him. Victor tells Davy a favourite cruel story about father-son loyalty, then pulls out a pistol and shoots himself in the chest.
Victor’s corpse is sent to Dublin, where Quirke becomes the case pathologist and, once again, assists Detective Inspector Hackett in solving the mystery behind this death. The stakes are high: Delahaye's prominence in business circles means that Hackett and Quirke must proceed very carefully. But then a second death occurs, this one even more shocking than the first, and quickly it becomes apparent that a terrible secret threatens to destroy the lives and reputations of those who knew Victor Delahaye.
Pan Macmillan 2012
Translated into: Catalan
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