02246cam a2200361 i 4500 443388481 TxAuBib 20201015120000.0 200923s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781335230003 Hardcover $27.99 1335230009 Hardcover $27.99 TxAuBib rda Banville, John. Snow / John Banville. Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, 2020. 299 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The year is 1957 and the Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist. 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. As he delves further, he learns the Osbornes are not at all what they seem. 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. Beautifully crafted, darkly evocative and pulsing with suspense, Snow is “the Irish master” (New Yorker) John Banville at his page-turning best. 20201015. Catholic Church Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Clergy Crimes against Fiction. Police Fiction. Secrets Fiction. Winter storms Fiction. Ireland Politics and government Fiction. Ireland Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Historical fiction. Mystery fiction.