© Ed. Robert Laffont, 2013
April Latimer, the daughter of one of the most respected families in the Irish capital, has vanished and her friend Phoebe Griffin suspects the worst. A junior doctor at a local hospital, April is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Frantic, Phoebe seeks out Quirke, her brilliant but erratic father, and asks him for help. Sober again after intensive treatment for alcoholism, Quirke enlists his old sparring partner, Detective Inspector Hackett, in the search for the missing young woman. As Quirke becomes deeply involved in April's murky story, he encounters complicated and ugly truths about family savagery, Catholic ruthlessness, and race hatred.
Henry Holt & Co. 2010
Translated into: Italian, Catalan, French
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