{"product_id":"snow-1","title":"Snow","description":"“One of the very best mysteries of this or any other year.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\"Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format… Superbly rich and sophisticated.\" —\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\tDetective 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\tThe 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\tAs 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\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\tBeautifully crafted, darkly evocative and pulsing with suspense, \u003cem\u003eSnow\u003c\/em\u003e is “the Irish master” (\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e) John Banville at his page-turning best.","brand":"John Banville","offers":[{"title":"Mass Market Paperback","offer_id":55582755029283,"sku":"9781335013330","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9781335013330.jpg?v=1789122153","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/snow-1","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}