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He wrote April in Spain on a laptop, rather than in longhand, using his trusty fountain pen, adding deadpan: “That does mean there will be no manuscripts to sell.”
Sep 22, 2021 · John Banville turned to crime some years ago employing the pseudonym Benjamin Black. It was difficult to see why. The novels were recognizably his, elegant and acute. A couple of years ago...
- Allan Massie
Oct 4, 2021 · There was a fleeting reference to Quirke in Snow, and Strafford himself pops up in April in Spain, meaning a less reverent reviewer than myself might hint at the creation of a Banville-verse.
Oct 21, 2021 · Banville’s latest, April in Spain, which continues the narrative arcs of both Snow and Black’s Elegy for April (but doesn’t assume that readers will be familiar with either novel), cements ...
- Doug Battersby
Oct 5, 2021 · Meanwhile, in Donostia in the Basque region of Spain, a semihappy couple named Quirke and Evelyn are visiting for an April holiday. He’s an Irish pathologist—hero of earlier mysteries Banville published under the name Benjamin Black—and she’s an Austrian psychiatrist who survived the Holocaust.
- Kirkus Reviews
by John Banville. From the very first sentence, “Terry Tice liked killing people,” APRIL IN SPAIN is off like a shot and running full tilt. Readers are instantly filled with a keen sense of intrigue and quickly left wondering who Terry Tice might go after next.
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It is the eighth book in the Quirke series of Irish crime novels by the author, albeit John Banville is publishing April in Spain under his own name, as opposed to his pseudonym Benjamin Black. All previous seven novels, up to Even the Dead in 2015, were released under Benjamin Black.
