"Here is an astonishing, disturbing little novel that might have been coughed up from hell." –
The New York Times Book Review
"Ireland's finest contemporary novelist." –
The Economist
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The Book of Evidence is a major new work of fiction in which every suave moment calmly detonates to show the murderous gleam within." –Don DeLillo
"Banville has excelled himself in a flawlessly flowing prose whose lyricism, patrician irony and aching sense of loss are reminiscent of Lolita." –
Observer "One of the most important writers now at work in English–a key thinker, in fact, in fiction." –
London Review of Books "Remarkable ... If all crime novels were like this one, there would no longer be the need for a genre." –Ruth Rendell