Starred Review. Black's engrossing third crime thriller set in
1950s Dublin (after The Silver Swan) finds pathologist
Garret Quirke fresh from a stint in alcohol rehab. Quirke
reluctantly agrees to help his daughter, Phoebe Griffin, with whom
he has a tenuous relationship, find her missing best friend, April
Latimer, a junior doctor at a local hospital. Quirke soon finds
that members of the powerful Latimer family have all but disowned
April, and yet he's sure they know more than they're letting on.
Phoebe does her own sleuthing among the group of friends she shared
with April, including a stage actress, a handsome Nigerian surgical
student, and a reporter. Black (the pen name of Booker Prize–winner
John Banville) is equally concerned with exploring the idea of
family and loyalty as with spinning a suspenseful whodunit, and his
depiction of a fragile father-daughter relationship is as powerful
as the unsettling truth behind April's disappearance. Author
tour. (Apr.)
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