Book Review: ‘The Lock-Up: A Novel’ By John Banville

In the 1950s Dublin, a young girl named Rosa Jacobs, who is Jewish, is found dead in a lock-up in her car. It looks like a suicide, and Detective Inspector John Strafford believes it to be the case, until pathologist Dr. Quirke tells him she was murdered. Now an investigation starts, and the two men, who don’t get along, both look at the case from different points of views. It all seems to lead to a German man, and his son, and a past involving WWII, and Rosa has stumbled onto information that someone doesn’t want to come out, and it puts lives in danger. A solid thriller, with twists and turns, right up to the very end. A good book to take to the beach.

You can pick up The Lock-Up in stores on Tuesday, May 23rd.