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Title: Vengeance

Author: Benjamin Black

Narrator: John Keating

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-13

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

The latest irresistible Quirke mystery from the Booker prize-winning author: now a major TV series starring Gabriel Byrne. Why would suicide need a witness? On the east coast of Ireland, Victor Delahaye, one of the country's most prominent citizens, takes his business partner's son out sailing. But once at sea, Davy Clancy is horrified to witness Delahaye take out a gun and shoot himself dead. This strange event captures the attention of Detective Inspector Hackett and his friend Pathologist Doctor Quirke.

The Delahayes and Clancys have been rivals for generations and the suicide lays bare the perplexing characters at the heart of the mystery, from Mona, Delahaye's toxic young widow, to Jonas and James, his strange, enigmatic twin sons; and Jack Clancy, his down-trodden, womanizing partner. And when a second death occurs, one even more shocking than the first, Quirke begins to realise that terrible secrets lie buried within these entangled families; and that in this world of jealousy, ruthless ambition and pride - nothing is quite as it seems...

Members Reviews:

Vengeance: Benjamin Black (aka John Banville) Ties Up Loose Ends & Develops His Style

In this fifth installment of Black's Quirke Series, he ties up some loose ends which are still hanging all the way back to "Christine Falls" his first Quirke Novel. Quirke still has an outstanding connection to the family that beat him up, broke his leg and knee and raped his daughter, Phoebe. This connection goes through the original family that was running the illegal baby exportation ring in Ireland which brought Quirke to America. There he met the Crawfords who ran the Irish ring and the wife of Old Man Crawford, Rose, who in her own way took a liking to Quirke and actually seduced him. But over the time of the last 3 novels, Rose had ultimately landed right in Dublin as the new wife to Dr. Quirke's 'brother' Malachy Griffin, the son of Judge Griffin, his adoptive family in Ireland. They took Quirke out of the orphanage and raised him as brother to their own son, Malachy. Malachy's 1st wife and Quirke's late wife were sisters and both Crawford girls. Thus, these ties still lingered, and the last of the Crawfords, Rose had married Quirke's adoptive brother, Malachy, thereby binding the remaining American remnants of the family with the Irish originals, all right in Dublin.

In this book, Black continues to develop his style and hone his well known bent for literature into a new medium, the detective novel. Black continues to fulfill readers search for a detective novelist who also has high and recognized literary expertise. While Black is still fond of ending the occasional sentence with a preposition (most often "of" as in "things he was afraid of") but has not sacrificed much of his expertise for proper and unique high level writing in a new format that he can write quickly and contribute to his personal interest in developing and penning his own detective series. Black turns out to be a secret lover and admirer of the genre, and the genre is certainly an admirer of his literary talent. While it is true that he still has a good ways to go before he finds perfection or as close thereto as he wishes to go, he certainly is lending his talent to this oft abused and discriminated against genre.