15 must-read crime books like The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9) by John Banville

Cover of The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9) by John Banville

The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

By: John Banville

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel …

If you liked the crime plot in The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9) by John Banville , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The Lemur by John Banville, Benjamin Black

1. The Lemur

By: John Banville , Benjamin Black

3.80

Format: 152 pages,

A new thriller from the Booker Prize-winning and Edgar-nominated author of Christine Falls and The … read more

Similar categories in John Banville's The Lemur book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
Cover of Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28) by Peter Robinson

2. Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28)

By: Peter Robinson

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The 28th twisting installment in the DCI Alan Banks mystery series that Stephen King calls "the bes… read more

Similar categories in Peter Robinson's Standing in the Shadows (Inspector Banks, #28) book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

3. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

Cover of The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

4. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

Similar categories in Mick Herron's The Secret Hours book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

Cover of Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) by Anthony Horowitz

5. Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

By: Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

In New York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunit in the Ha… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Horowitz's Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5) book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright

6. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

Cover of The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) by Adrian McKinty

7. The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7)

By: Adrian McKinty

4.39

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Slamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s Belfast, Detective Inspector Sean Duffy hopes that the … read more

Similar categories in Adrian McKinty's The Detective Up Late (Sean Duffy, #7) book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7) by Val McDermid

8. Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7)

By: Val McDermid

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Val McDermid returns with DCI Karen Pirie in a new thriller of deceit and vengeance, set against th… read more

Similar categories in Val McDermid's Past Lying (Karen Pirie #7) book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3) by Ann Cleeves

9. The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.01

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

Ann Cleeves― New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, b… read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Raging Storm (Two Rivers, #3) book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Independence Square (Arkady Renko, #10) by Martin Cruz Smith

10. Independence Square (Arkady Renko, #10)

By: Martin Cruz Smith

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion… read more

Similar categories in Martin Cruz Smith's Independence Square (Arkady Renko, #10) book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

11. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

12. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

Cover of The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9) by John Banville

13. The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

By: John Banville

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Booker Prize winner and “Irish master” (The New Yorker) John Banville’s most ambitious crime novel … read more

Similar categories in John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9) book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) by Joseph O'Connor

14. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

Similar categories in Joseph O'Connor's My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • thriller
  • ireland
  • audiobook
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

Cover of Reykjavík: A Crime Story by Ragnar Jónasson

15. Reykjavík: A Crime Story

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.66

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

With over three million copies sold worldwide, Ragnar Jónasson, along with Katrín Jakobsdóttir, bri… read more

Similar categories in Ragnar Jónasson's Reykjavík: A Crime Story book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Line in the Sand by Kevin Powers

16. A Line in the Sand

By: Kevin Powers

3.88

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

In this “spellbinding and totally original thriller” (Philipp Meyer, author of The Son ) a lonely v… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Powers's A Line in the Sand book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of La innombrable (Inspectora Mauri, #3) by Lorenzo Silva

17. La innombrable (Inspectora Mauri, #3)

By: Lorenzo Silva

3.66

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

El nuevo caso de la inspectora Manuela Mauri. Más de 90.000 lectores Una historia sobre las dificul… read more

Similar categories in Lorenzo Silva's La innombrable (Inspectora Mauri, #3) book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • thriller
Cover of The Girl by the Bridge (Detective Konrad, #2) by Arnaldur Indriðason

18. The Girl by the Bridge (Detective Konrad, #2)

By: Arnaldur Indriðason

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When a young woman known for drug smuggling goes missing, her elderly grandparents have no choice b… read more

Similar categories in Arnaldur Indriðason's The Girl by the Bridge (Detective Konrad, #2) book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret Guests (St. John Strafford, #1) by Benjamin Black

19. The Secret Guests (St. John Strafford, #1)

By: Benjamin Black

3.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

As London endures nightly German bombings, Britain's secret service whisks the princesses Elizabeth… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Black's The Secret Guests (St. John Strafford, #1) book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • ireland
  • audiobook
Cover of Lost and Never Found  (DI Wilkins Mysteries #3) by Simon Mason

20. Lost and Never Found (DI Wilkins Mysteries #3)

By: Simon Mason

4.35

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

'Ryan and Ray go from strength to strength, and this, their third outing, is the best yet. Simon Ma… read more

Similar categories in Simon Mason's Lost and Never Found (DI Wilkins Mysteries #3) book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of La hora del lobo by Toni Hill

21. La hora del lobo

By: Toni Hill

3.89

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Tras el éxito de El último verdugo, continúa la trilogía que tú también recomendarás. La noche e… read more

Similar categories in Toni Hill's La hora del lobo book and John Banville's The Lock-Up (Quirke, #9)

  • thriller

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The Lemur

John Banville , Benjamin Black

3.80

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Peter Robinson

4.09

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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Mick Herron

4.29

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The Mountain King (The Asker Series, #1)

Anders de la Motte

4.18

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Skulden man bär (Sebastian Bergman #8)

Michael Hjorth

4.09

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Un animal salvaje

Joël Dicker

4.05

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El hijo olvidado

Mikel Santiago

4.30

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