Elegy for April (Quirke Series #3)

Quirke returns in the third volume of John Banville’s celebrated series

A junior doctor at a local hospital, April Latimer is a scandalous presence in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin: the independently-minded scion of a well-connected family, she has decidedly unconventional taste in men. When she vanishes, her friend Phoebe fears the worst—and calls on her father, forensic pathologist Quirke, for help.

Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Qui...