{"product_id":"snow-a-novel","title":"Snow: A Novel","description":"Used paperback in Very Good condition. *NATIONAL BESTSELLER*\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e *SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD*\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format...superbly rich and sophisticated.\"--New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Beautifully crafted, darkly evocative and pulsing with suspense, Snow is \"the Irish master\" (New Yorker) John Banville at his page-turning best.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Don't miss John Banville's next novel, The Lock-up!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Other riveting mysteries from John Banville: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eApril in Spain\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Banville, John","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53876313686299,"sku":"mon0000653911","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/4004\/3291\/files\/14631593482663.jpg?v=1788534034","url":"https:\/\/bookalley.com\/products\/snow-a-novel","provider":"Book Alley","version":"1.0","type":"link"}