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SnowSnow

Snow

John Lee, John Banville

3.4(35)on Hardcover

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Investigating the murder of a County Wexford priest in 1957, Detective Inspector St. John Strafford navigates harsh winter weather and the community's culture of silence to expose an aristocratic family's dangerous secrets. 1957. Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate when a parish priest is found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. The Catholic Church rules Ireland with an iron fist, and Strafford-- a Protestant-- faces obstruction at every turn. There is a culture of silence in this tight-knit community, and Strafford learns the Osbornes are not at all what they seem. 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. -- adapted from jacket

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OL Work ID
OL21679007W

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New York Times reviewedFiction, mystery & detective, historicalIreland, fictionPoliceFictionClergyDeathMurderInvestigationHistoryFICTION / Mystery & Detective / TraditionalFICTION / Thrillers / CrimeFICTION / LiteraryHomicideAristocracy

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