John Banville carefully constructs the layers of a classic country-house murder mystery in Snow.
Following the discovery of the corpse of a highly respected parish priest at Ballyglass House, Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate. Strafford faces obstruction from all angles but carries on determinedly in his pursuit of the murderer. However, as the snow continues to fall over this ever-expanding mystery, the people of Ballyglass are equally determined to keep their secrets.