OVER RECENT years, John Banville has written a relatively commercially successful series of hard-boiled noir thrillers under the name of Benjamin Black. This latest crime novel, however – the first to be published under his own name – turns out to be a conventional mystery story, with a protagonist lifted from the author’s other 2020… Read more »
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