Elegy for April

from KateVane

This book is beautifully written. It evokes the fog-enveloped gloom of 1950s Dublin. It provides insights into the claustrophobic world of the city's middle class. But nothing happens. Phoebe thinks her friend April may have disappeared but April always was a bit of a wild one. Phoebe talks about...

from Juva

When young Phoebe's girlfriend stops calling her, at first she thinks it's nothing. But when it becomes clear that no one has seen April for days, Phoebe gets in contact with Quirke who has recently returned from an infirmary where he's been drying out after a protracted drunk. April was a prom...

from etoiline

I was hoping for a little more in this novel, coming from a best-selling author and being the 3rd in a series. It was an interesting story, but it moved pretty slowly--the plot twist didn't show up until the very end, and the major question of the book--where is April?--isn't actually answered, a...

from PipTulip

This book is set in Dublin, Ireland in the 1950's. A girl, April, goes missing and her close friend, Phoebe, does everything to find her. Including talking to her family and enlisted her own father to help. This is a dark book part mystery part thriller and part romance. It took forever to read t...

from EllenH

This early reviewers copy was somewhat out of my general line of reading, but an interesting read. Quirke- the erratic, alchoholic, Dublin pathologist is a well developed character, more so than his daughter Phoebe, and her odd friends, & much more than her missing friend April Lavery. It was dis...