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Henry Holt & Company
July 2011
On Sale: July 5, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 0805090924
EAN: 9780805090925
Hardcover
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One of Dublin's most powerful men meets a violent end— and
an acknowledged master of crime fiction delivers his most
gripping novel yet On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard
Jewell—known to his many enemies as Diamond Dick—is
discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast. But
is it suicide or murder? For help with the investigation,
Detective Inspector Hackett calls in his old friend Quirke,
who has unusual access to Dublin's elite. Jewell's coolly elegant French wife, Françoise, seems less
than shocked by her husband's death. But Dannie, Jewell's
high-strung sister, is devastated, and Quirke is surprised
to learn that in her grief she has turned to an unexpected
friend: David Sinclair, Quirke's ambitious assistant in the
pathology lab at the Hospital of the Holy Family. Further,
Sinclair has been seeing Quirke's fractious daughter Phoebe,
and an unlikely romance is blossoming between the two. As a
record heat wave envelops the city and the secret deals
underpinning Diamond Dick's empire begin to be revealed,
Quirke and Hackett find themselves caught up in a dark web
of intrigue and violence that threatens to end in disaster. Tightly plotted and gorgeously written, A Death in Summer
proves to the brilliant but sometimes reckless Quirke that
in a city where old money and the right bloodlines rule, he
is by no means safe from mortal danger.
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