The Book of Evidence
02 October 2025
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Inspired by the crimes of Malcolm Macarthur in Ireland, 1982, The Book of Evidence by John Banville is a gripping portrait of a cold, deceptive and utterly unprecedented killer, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
'Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people's souls' – Don DeLillo, author of White Noise and Libra
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02 October 2025
224 pages
9781035076796
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Remarkable. . . If all crime novels were like this one, there would no longer be the need for a genreRuth Rendell, author of the Inspector Wexford series
The Book of Evidence is a major work of fiction in which every suave moment calmly detonates to show the murderous gleam within. Banville writes a dangerous and clear-running prose and has a grim gift of seeing people's soulsDon DeLillo, author of Underworld, Cosmopolis and Mao II
Banville has excelled himself in a flawlessly flowing prose whose lyricism, patrician irony and aching sense of loss are reminiscent of LolitaObserver
One of the most important writers now at work in English - a key thinker, in fact, in fictionLondon Review of Books