Phoebe's best friend April has gone missing. She enlists her father Quirke to help find her.

This is the third in a series of novels about Quirke. He is a pathologist with a drinking problem who often finds himself in bad situations. Crime noir set in 1950s Dublin.

Read this despite being lukewarm about the series. Interesting enough mystery, went by fast. A decent read I will forget and probably never recommend to anyone.