Overview
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1945: la guerra ha terminado y algunos alemanes deben huir del paĆs. Tras un viaje agotador, un hombre llega a un antiguo monasterio franciscano que se alza frente a los Dolomitas. AllĆ hallarĆ” refugio y tambiĆ©n sellarĆ” un pacto.
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MĆ”s de una dĆ©cada despuĆ©s, el doctor Quirke es Ā«un animal heridoĀ» que se ha mudado a casa de su hija Phoebe tras la trĆ”gica muerte de su mujer. Cuando en un garaje de DublĆn aparece el cadĆ”ver de la joven estudiante judĆa Rosa Jacobs, todo parece apuntar a un suicidio, pero Quirke y el inspector Strafford āque se enfrentan a su primer caso juntosā sospechan que se trata de un crimen, al igual que la hermana de la vĆctima, una periodista que se une a la bĆŗsqueda de la verdad y zarandea el corazĆ³n del patĆ³logo. Mientras las relaciones entre los dos investigadores se vuelven cada vez mĆ”s tensas, el misterio se agudiza cuando descubren los vĆnculos de Rosa con el hijo de una acaudalada familia alemana que se mudĆ³ al condado de Wicklow tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial y tiene negocios en Israel. ĀæPodrĆ”n unir las piezas del rompecabezas oculto?
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Ā«Soberbio e impactante [...]. MĆ”s que un toque de genialidadĀ». - The Times
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A New York Times Editors' Choice
Booker Prize winner and āIrish masterā (The New Yorker) John Banvilleās most ambitious crime novel yet brings two detectives together to solve a globe-spanning mystery.
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In 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 itās the victimās older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case.
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One of Rosaās 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 caseāand everyone involvedāin peril, including Quirkeās own daughter.
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Spanning the mountaintops of Italy, the front lines of World War II Bavaria, the gritty streets of Dublin and other unexpected locales, The Lock-Up is an ambitious and arresting mystery by one of the worldās most celebrated authors.
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