Peter Handel has reviewed and written about crime fiction for The San Francisco Chronicle, The Portland Oregonian, Pages Magazine and Mystery Readers International. He lives in Northern California. Since the pandemic began, he’s been reading. A lot.
"I’ve represented people who have been accused of the most horrific of crimes and some of those people have been the vilest of people who I would be happy never to see again."
Banville says his "Benjamin Black" pen name is done, finished, dead. So what is his protagonist Quirke doing in a new novel that moves between Ireland and Spain?