Synopsis
Inspired by the crimes of Malcolm Macarthur in Ireland, 1982, The Book of Evidence by John Banville is a gripping portrait of a cold, deceptive and utterly unprecedented killer.
'Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people's souls' – Don DeLillo, author of White Noise and Libra
Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes. He stole...
Details
05 March 2010224 pages
9780330371872Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Banville has excelled himself in a flawlessly flowing prose whose lyricism, patrician irony and aching sense of loss are reminiscent of Lolita.Observer
The Book of Evidence is a major work of fiction in which every suave moment calmly detonates to show the murderous gleam within. Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people’s souls.Don DeLillo, author of Underworld, Cosmopolis and Mao II
One of the most important writers now at work in English – a key thinker, in fact, in fiction.London Review of Books
Remarkable. . . If all crime novels were like this one, there would no longer be the need for a genre.Ruth Rendell, author of the Inspector Wexford series
