Elegy for April
ISBN:
9780330509046 (0330509047)
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Irish Literature,
Mystery,
Detective,
Ireland,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Suspense
Series: Quirke (#3)
bookshelves: published-2010, spring-2010, britain-ireland, fraudio, families, mystery-thriller Read from May 04 to 05, 2010 aka John BanvilleUnabridged. Read by Timothy Dalton - whee! Would have been a 4* except for the drawn out fill-in-the-gaps ending.My first B.B. but I do have the Silver Swa...
Wow, how terrible this was. I have read other books in the Quirke series and enjoyed them. Probably because they had a plot. Even the character development in the series goes backwards with this one. Nothing happens in this book, and the loose mystery serves no purpose. None of the characters a...
This was my first Benjamin Black book and I agree with others that there really wasn't much of a plot in this one but I did enjoy the main characters, mainly Quirk.
No. 3 Quirke MysteryThese are dark stories, set in Dublin in the 1950's. Every character in the book seems troubled and happiness seems a illusion in this world.Phoebe, Quirke's daughter is worried about April, a friend of hers who's gone missing. When she askes Quirke, who has just signed himself o...
I thought this storyline could have been written alot more interesting than it was. I found myself bored with and frequently distracted while reading the story.