Snow – St. John Strafford, Book 1, Audiobook Online By: John Banville
The Booker Prize winner’s next great crime novel is one-of-a-kind – the story of a family whose secrets are unraveled when a parish priest is found murdered at their nest home. ancestor.
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 headquarters of the aristocratic, clandestine Osborne family.
It was 1957 and the Catholic Church ruled Ireland with an iron fist. Strafford – flint, clearly Protestant and determined to identify the killer – faces obstacles at every turn, from heavy snow accumulation to a culture of silence in a tight-knit community closely that he began to investigate.
As he digs deeper, he learns that the Osbornes are not at all what they seem. And when his deputy goes missing, Strafford must work to unravel an ever-expanding mystery before the community’s secrets, like the snowfall itself, threaten to obliterate everything.
Beautifully choreographed, dark and suspenseful, Snow is the “Irish master” (New Yorker) John Banville at his peak.
A masterful work of expressing mood using delicately nuanced images of crumbling stately homes, cold, white winter country roads. The joy comes from watching the slow process of unraveling the mystery, which has been quietly evident from the very beginning. A story right from the title is told in an artful way. Don’t miss John Banville’s next novel, April in Spain!
For the first time, a horror film doesn’t offend one’s intelligence with dull, pragmatic writing and a boring, boring plot. Snow is beautifully written and the characters always come to life through a few skillful lines that bring out their quirks and moods.
John Lee’s performance is just as amazing, unique, and clever as John Banville’s writing is. I absolutely love it.
