April in Spain

Irresistible, sun-kissed follow up to the top ten bestseller Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author.

The sumptuous, propulsive, sun-kissed follow up to the bestselling Snow, f rom the Booker Prize winning author ''Superb.'' The Times ''Utterly absorbing.'' Daily Mail ''A joy to read.'' Sunday Times ''The ultimate page-turner.'' Irish Independent On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax. And when he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at the bar Las Arcadas, a woman who was meant to have died in a political scandal back in Ireland years earlier, any chance of a peaceful holiday is lost. After a call home, Detective St John Strafford is dispatched to Spain, but he''s not the only one on route: as a terrifying hitman hunts down his prey, they are all set for a brutal showdown.

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Irresistible, sun-kissed follow up to the top ten bestseller Snow, from the Booker Prize winning author.

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JOHN BANVILLE was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, the 2005 Booker Prize-winning The Sea, and, more recently, the bestselling Strafford and Quirke crime series, which has twice been shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger.