April In Spain

John Banville, Faber & Faber, £14.99

In his latest crime novel John Banville returns to his heavy-drinking Irish pathologist Quirke.

While on holiday with his enigmatic psychiatrist wife in the Basque city of San Sebastian, he spots a half-remembered face.

A restless and curious Quirke tries to identify the young woman - long-thought dead – and sets in motion a train of events threatening to uncover political and familial scandal and bring about deadly consequences.