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Snow

Snow

A Novel

by John Banville
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 06/10/2020

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The incomparable Booker Prize winner's next great crime novel is the story of an aristocratic family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their 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 this tight-knit community. 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, threatens 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.

ISBN:
9781799919926
9781799919926
Category:
Historical fiction
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
06-10-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Country of origin:
Canada
Dimensions (mm):
144.78x132.08mm
John Banville

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of fifteen previous novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize.

In 2011 he was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize, in 2013 he was awarded the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature, and in 2014 he won the Prince of Asturias Award, Spain's most important literary prize. He lives in Dublin.

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