April in Spain: A Novel (Quirke, 8) Hardcover – October 5, 2021 by John Banville

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Author: Banville John

Edition: Original

Package Dimensions: 28x235x517

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 05-10-2021

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Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish coast

Don’t disturb the dead…

On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, cafés and the company of his disarmingly lovely wife. When he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at Las Acadas bar, it’s hard at first to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him.

Because this young woman can’t be April Latimer. She was murdered by her brother, years ago—the conclusion to an unspeakable scandal that shook one of Ireland’s foremost political dynasties.

Unable to ignore his instincts, Quirke makes a call back home to Ireland and soon Detective St. John Strafford is dispatched to Spain. But he’s not the only one en route. A relentless hit man is on the hunt for his latest prey, and the next victim might be Quirke himself.

Sumptous, propulsive and utterly transporting,
April in Spain is the work of a master writer at the top of his game.

Review

“A compelling addition to Banville’s extensive body of work.”—
LitHub

“Great fun from a masterful writer.”—
Kirkus (STARRED review)

“[
April in Spain] crackles with the kinetic energy of an approaching thunderstorm as Banville brilliantly contrasts the blue skies of Spain with the wine-dark seas roiling inside his characters’ heads.”
—Booklist STARRED review

“Banville rewards his readers with some of the finest prose in the mystery genre…and villains worthy of Agatha Christie’s poisoned pen.”
—BookPage

About the Author

JOHN BANVILLE was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of numerous novels, including
The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize, and the DI Quirke novels written under the pseudonym Benjamin Black. In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain’s most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin.