Elegy for April (Quirke Series #3) »

Benjamin Black, the pen name of acclaimed novelist John Banville, is the author of Christine Falls and The Silver Swan. Christine Falls was nominated for both the Edgar Award and Macavity Award for Best Novel; both Christine Falls and Silver Swan were national bestsellers. Banville lives in Dublin.

Quirke—the hard-drinking Dublin pathologist—is back, and he's determined to find his daughter's best friend, a well-connected young doctor.

The New York Times - Janet Maslin

The Quirke books are so savvy, stylish and unencumbered by literary ambition that they deliver a lot of guilty pleasure. They're clever but uncomplicated…Set in the 1950s, when a fashionable woman may show up in a mink coat…the Quirke books mirror the small-mindedness of their time…and place. Elegy for April [is] the best and most assured of the lot…