The Lock-Up, Banville - B

                    In 1957 Dublin, Chief Pathologist Quirke concludes that Rosa Jacobs did not commit suicide, but rather was murdered by carbon monoxide piped into her car after she was drugged. Det. Inspector Strafford begins the investigation, with Quirke accompanying him. Rosa was a firebrand doctoral candidate at Trinity writing about the Jewish Diaspora in Ireland and yet, spending time with the Kesslers, rich Germans ensconced in County Wicklow. Both men are suspicious of the Germans who have a business in Israel and seem to have the support of a highly placed bishop, who acknowledges that the church helped them escape Europe after the war. They learn that an Israeli journalist who may have been investigating the Kesslers died in a hit and run accident. Then much closer to home, Rosa's sister, Molly, a London journalist in Dublin for her sister's funeral, is also a hit and run victim. It is, of course, the Nazis. Although the Republic of Ireland was not South America, it did harbor a few of Catholicism's bad guys after WWII.