Childhood At War
April, 2007
Murder, kidnapping and a literary answer to whodunitThis unsettling Irish noir from Man Booker Prize winner John Banville (pseudony-mously slumming it here as Benjamin Black) traces a conspiracy from a basement morgue to the upper stratum of the Catholic Church. But don't worry; no clues are found in the works of Da Vinci. Whensecrets are uncovered, there is no sense of relief. In this capable thriller—complete with a dead blonde and a hero who boozes too much—Banville is more concerned (and...
