April In Spain, Banville - B

                        We find state pathologist Quirke on vacation in Spain, where he believes he sees a woman from Dublin whom everyone thinks is dead. April Latimer was a physician in Dublin when her brother confessed to killing her, but her body was never found. News of her presence in Spain stirs her uncle, a minister in the Irish government, to seek out and find a hitman; because April knows way too much about his illegal arming of IRA members in the north. The attempt at murder fails. The author is a Booker winner and has a way with words that manages to propel a slim story enjoyably along.