"[Black's] books about the dour Irish pathologist named Quirke have effortless flair, with their period-piece cinematic ambience and their sultry romance...like Alan Furst's elegant, doom-infused World War II spy books.' - Janet Maslin, The New York Times on A Death in SummerIt's a fine day for a sail, and Victor Delahaye, one of Ireland's most successful businessmen, takes his boat far out to sea - then kills himself in front of his partner's son. This mysterious death immediately engages the attention of Detective Inspector Hackett and his sometime partner Quirke, consultant pathologist. The stakes are high, and Hackett and Quirke must proceed with caution as they question Mona Delahaye, the dead man's young and very beautiful wife; James and Jonas Delahaye, his identical twin sons; and Jack Clancy, his ambitious, womanizing partner. When a second - and even more shocking - death occurs, it becomes clear that a terrible secret threatens to destroy the lives and reputations of Dublin's elite.Benjamin Black reveals a world where money and sex trump everything in his latest masterwork of noir.- The fifth installment in Benjamin Black's beloved Quike serie