When Benjamin black let know John Banville that the next installment of Quirke would take place in the already illustrious cinematographic Donosti, I could not imagine how successful the matter would be. Because nothing better than the tune of the development of a plot full of contrasts like San Sebastián itself, as soon sprinkled with its luminous white on good days as suddenly plunged into the shadows that end up revolting its sea.
Dragged by his vital wife Evelyn to a holiday in San Sebastian, pathologist Quirke soon stops missing gloomy and gloomy Dublin to start enjoying the walks, the good weather, the sea and the txakoli.
However, all this calm and hedonism is disturbed when a somewhat ridiculous accident takes him to a city hospital. In it he meets an Irish woman who is strangely familiar to him, until he finally thinks he recognizes in her an unfortunate young woman, a friend of his daughter Phoebe.
If memory, or alcohol abuse, do not play a trick on him, it would be April Latimer, allegedly murdered - although her body was never found - by her disturbed brother in the course of a sordid investigation in which Quirke himself he was involved years ago. Convinced that he has not seen a ghost, he insists that Phoebe visit the Basque Country to clear up any doubts.
What Quirke ignores is that she will be accompanied by Inspector Strafford, for whom she has a sharp dislike, and that, furthermore, a very peculiar hitman will undertake the same journey.
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