Black is the pen name of the acclaimed Irish writer John Banville, a fact it took me a long time to figure out. His detective is Dublin pathologist Quirke, who at the novel's opening is recovering from neurological damage resulting from being thrown down the steps by thugs (in an earlier novel, presumably). When a young man is found dead in a fiery car crash and his assistant discovers that his head was bashed in prior to the car crash, Quirke returns from his semi-retired state to investigate.
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