April in Spain, John Banville
April in Spain, John Banville
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April in Spain
A Novel

Author: John Banville

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/05/2021


Synopsis

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*

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.

Don't miss John Banville's next novel, The Lock-up!

Other riveting mysteries from John Banville: Snow

About John Banville

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on March 11, 2023

[Edited 3/11/23] The author starts the story with the proverbial loaded gun: we follow a hired killer who grew up in an orphanage. (There are a lot of orphans in the story.) This character enjoys killing and he refined his skills as a British soldier in Burma in World War II. The next chapter shifts......more

Goodreads review by Ceecee on July 31, 2021

Dublin pathologist Dr Quirke is uncomfortably on holiday in San Sebastián with his wife Evelyn when an incident shucking oysters necessitates a hospital visit. Whilst he’s convinced he sees April Latimer, a friend of his daughter Phoebe but that’s impossible isn’t it, because she’s dead, murdered by......more

Goodreads review by karen on October 05, 2021

NOW AVAILABLE!! ************************************ okay, i finished Snow and i have enough time to cram this one in before the demands of SPOOKTOBER begin, so crisis averted. ************************************ oops, i did it again. i won a gr giveaway without reading the fine print. i have read joh......more

Goodreads review by Dave on August 03, 2022

I just did something I rarely do: I read the same mystery twice in the same year. I did that because I had read it out of order, reading the eighth book in the series first, so I needed to reread it now, having finished the first seven. This is the eighth book in Benjamin Black's Dr. Quirke series A......more

Goodreads review by Clemens on April 09, 2022

This amazing novel is the 2nd volume of the "St John Strafford" series, although he has only a minor part in this crime mystery of power and rule. Storytelling is of a top-notch quality, dialogue between characters is very believable and lifelike, and the atmosphere and living circumstances in Dublin......more