About the book
Benjamin Black (John Banville’s alter ego) returns to bookstores on October 5 with The Jacobs Sisters Quirke and Inspector Strafford’s first joint case. Published by Alfaguara, the winner of the Prince of Asturias Award and strong Nobel candidate signs his most ambitious crime novel, with the declared project of “transforming the detective novel into art.” The book will be published on October 5 in Catalan by the Bromera publishing house within the L’Eclèctica collection with the title The Jacobs sisters.
The cycle dedicated to the Dublin pathologist now reaches its ninth title, defined from the first moment by contributing rich prose and brilliant character characterization to the codes of the genre, in addition to focusing on the environmental and moral grayness that defined the capital. Irish after the Second World War and returning to the theme of the perfidious abuse of power in any of its facets (political, economic, social, religious…), all of this compensated by the subtle and ironic sense of humor that is a trademark of the author. Accustomed to sticking to the recent history of Ireland and the abuses committed by its most powerful groups (Church, politicians, rich families…), this time Black broadens his vision and takes us to settings such as a monastery in the middle of the Alps, a field of German concentration and a Tel Aviv of shady business alliances, all united by the issue of how some Nazis managed to evade justice and start a new life under a change of identity.
Strafford felt a little sorry for Quirke. He felt guilty about his wife’s death, of course he did. It is true that I could not have prevented it. Still, he understood Quirke’s anger and resentment. The duel must demand that someone be responsible for its cause, and Strafford was the most convenient target on which to pin the bulk of the blame.
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More than a decade later, Dr. Quirke is “a wounded animal” who has moved in with his daughter Phoebe after the tragic death of his wife. When the body of the young Jewish student Rosa Jacobs is found in a Dublin garage, everything seems to point to suicide, but Quirke and Inspector Strafford—who are facing their first case together—suspect that it is a crime, as well as than the victim’s sister, a journalist who joins the search for the truth and shakes the pathologist’s heart. As relations between the two investigators become increasingly tense, the mystery deepens when they discover Rosa’s links to the son of a wealthy German family who moved to County Wicklow after the Second World War and has business in Israel. Can they put the pieces of the hidden puzzle together?
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