AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: Snow (Strafford & Quirke #1) by John Banville
REVIEW:
Set in Ireland in the 1950's during a horrific snowstorm that is making travel almost impossible. A parish priest is found dead and there are many suspects who are all part of the same family.
The town is hesitant to help, and the detectives partner goes missing. This book focuses on the atrocities of the Catholic Church who would cover up crimes by priests by moving them around.
While the mystery is compelling and the writing excellent the material is dark. You do get to hear from the villain and victim justifying his actions. Some people have found this book to be depressing, and it definitely wasn't uplifting, but it was interesting and delves into an interesting time period.
I'm interesting to see what the other books in this series are like.
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Publisher: Harlequin Audio
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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.
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