John Banville 7 Books Collection Set (Christine Falls, The Silver Swan, A Death in Summer, Vengeance, Elegy for April, Holy Orders, The Lemur)

John Banville 7 Books Collection Set brings together seven novels by John Banville. This is a multi-book collection featuring the Quirke series alongside The Lemur.

Included titles

• Christine Falls
• The Silver Swan
• A Death in Summer
• Vengeance
• Elegy for April
• Holy Orders
• The Lemur

Key details

• Seven-book collection by John Banville
• Includes six Quirke novels set in 1950s Dublin
• Also includes The Lemur, set in New York
• Quirke is a pathologist who becomes drawn into investigations

Synopses

Christine Falls

Quirke’s world is the pathology department beneath 1950s Dublin: controlled, quiet, and cut off from daylight. One late-night discovery draws him into an investigation that exposes a secret embedded in the city’s high Catholic network, with consequences that reach uncomfortably close to home.

The Silver Swan

In 1950s Dublin, Quirke is living with grief and strained family ties when an old acquaintance asks for help over a wife’s apparent suicide. He senses danger immediately, yet finds himself unable to turn away from the trouble that follows.

Elegy for April

A dense fog settles over Dublin as a young woman, April, disappears. Asked to assist, Quirke begins to piece together her life through those who knew her, and the picture that emerges suggests a deeper secrecy than expected.

After a disturbing discovery, the tangle of love, lies, jealousy and hidden truths surrounding her begins to come apart.

A Death in Summer

Richard Jewell, a powerful newspaper magnate, is found dead at his country estate with a shotgun in his hands. While many assume suicide, Quirke becomes convinced that “Diamond Dick” was murdered.

As suspicion shifts and Quirke looks closely at Jewell’s wife, sister, and household, the case reveals a family where appearances conceal far more than they show.

Vengeance

On Ireland’s east coast, a prominent man takes his business partner’s son sailing and shoots himself at sea. The baffling circumstances draw Quirke into an inquiry that deepens when a second, even more shocking death follows.

What he uncovers lies in the buried secrets of two families bound together by rivalry.

Holy Orders

Spring storms sweep through 1950s Dublin when a body is discovered in a canal. Quirke is pulled into a brutal murder investigation that leads to the organisation he believes truly governs the city: the church.

With memories of a traumatic childhood in a priest-run orphanage resurfacing, the search for truth becomes his most testing case yet.

The Lemur

In New York, William “Big Bill” Mulholland, head of a wealthy dynasty, commissions his journalist son-in-law John Glass to shape an official biography in response to a hostile one. Glass brings in a sharp-eyed researcher known as “the lemur”.

When the researcher is found dead, shot through the eye, Glass is left facing unanswered questions and growing police scrutiny.

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