The incomparable Booker Prize winner\'s next great crime novel--the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home Detective Inspector St.
Beautifully crafted, darkly evocative and pulsing with suspense, Snow is the Irish master ( New Yorker ) John Banville at his page-turning best..
And when his own deputy goes missing, Strafford must work to unravel the ever-expanding mystery before the community\'s secrets, like the snowfall itself, threaten to obliterate everything.
As he delves further, he learns the Osbornes are not at all what they seem.
Strafford--flinty, visibly Protestant and determined to identify the murderer--faces obstruction at every turn, from the heavily accumulating Snow to the culture of silence in the tight-knit community he begins to investigate.
The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist.
A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family.
John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder.
The incomparable Booker Prize winner\'s next great crime novel--the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home Detective Inspector St
