THE LOCK-UP, by John Banville (Faber & Faber, $36.99)
Until about a decade ago, Irish novelist John Banville split his fiction in two: a large body of heavily stylised, interlocking “literary” works published under his own name, and his handful of “Quirke” thrillers about a pathologist in 1950s Dublin written by “Benjamin Black”.
Banville won the 2005 Man Booker Prize for , but the early Quirke books, which he wrote at speed and for fun starting in 2007, took him