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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  Sivani | Nov 23, 2009 |  didn't like that much. Loved the other two books in '50's Dublin (  ) fordbarbara | Nov 19, 2009 | This book by Benjamin Black ( a.k.a. John Banville) was serilized in the New York Times before being published in novella form by Picador. It is a standalone mystery set in New York not Dublin where Black's previous works - CHRISTINE FALLS and THE SILVER SWAN were set. The plot involves an Irish journalist named John Glass being asked tyo write the biography of his bigger than life father-in-law Big Bill Mulholland. Glass decides to hire a reseacher named Dylan Riley to help with the biography. Soon afterwards Dylan, also called the Lemur by Glass winds up dead.It is now up to glass to solve the crime. The author is a wonderful writer and the book deserves to be read to experience one of the great craftsman of literature. However if one has not read anything by John Banville I would not start with his mysteries - THE UNTOUCHABLE or THE SEA which won the Booker Prize a few years ago are better places to start with this wonderful writer. (  ) Alsek | Jul 24, 2009 | John Banville switches from his usual genre of literary fiction, to write this 'literary noir thriller'. The novel is atmospheric, taut and develops believable characterization. I personally prefer his mainstream writings, but this slim novella succeeds masterfully in it's genre. Banville can do no wrong. ( ) kiwidoc | Jul 19, 2009 | Audiobook. Benjamin Black is the pen name for John Banville. I enjoyed Christine Falls and its follow-up novel The Silver Swan. A fun take on the detective novel with great accent in the reading. This book about an Irishman with an American wife in New York City. A bit of a mystery. A slight book to say the least. Competent. But hardly worth having written. . . . . ( ) idiotgirl | Jul 14, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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A new thriller from the Booker Prize–winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan
John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable. He's given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of his father-in-law, communications magnate and former CIA agent Big Bill Mulholland. He works in a big office in Mulholland Tower, rent-free, and goes home (most nights) to his wealthy and well-preserved wife, Wild Bill's daughter. He misses his old life sometimes, but all in all things have turned out well.
But when his shifty young researcher--a man he calls "The Lemur"--turns up some unflattering information about the family, Glass's whole easy existence is threatened. Then the young man is murdered, and it's up to Glass to find out what The Lemur knew, and who killed him, before any secrets come out--and before any other bodies appear.
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Finely crafted - although perhaps a tad behind his literary prose - The Lemur will capture the reader in a book that is so much more than just a mystery.
It might not be to everyone's taste perhaps - if you are looking for an airport novel, it might be best to steer clear.