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A carregar... Snowpor John Banville
  
Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) kimberlyMerry | Mar 22, 2024 |  Christie but make it Irish, a smidge more modern, and quite a bit more than a smidge gritty and violent. I loved it up until I didn’t, but my aversion is certainly my own and not the fault of the book, which is wonderfully written. What I didn’t love was ) electrascaife | Jan 28, 2024 | taurus27 | Oct 24, 2023 |  ) Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 | In the lead-up to Christmas, DI St. John Strafford is sent to a remote country house to investigate the gruesome murder of a local priest. Strafford has been picked for the job because he is the scion of a wealthy family, almost unique in the Garda. Strafford arrives at Ballyglass House to find that the whole area is beset by heavy snow-falls and a deep winter pall. Colonel Osborne, owner of Ballyglass, is less than co-operative and seems keen to clear it all up quickly, with no reflection on the family. The local Cardinal also takes an interest, and puts serious pressure on Strafford to gloss over the sordid details, and wind the investigation up. There are several references in the narrative where Strafford considers that it is all too much like being surrounded by a bunch of Irish countryside stereotypes. That is indeed true, and the downfall of this book. It comes across all too much like a gorier Midsomer Murders, and was therefore not my kind of crime novel. ( ) gjky | Apr 9, 2023 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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HTML:*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD* A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick "Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format...superbly rich and sophisticated."??New York Times Book Review The incomparable Booker Prize winner's next great crime novel??the story of a family whose secrets resurface when a parish priest is found murdered in their ancestral home 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. Beautifully crafted, darkly evocative and pulsing with suspense, Snow is "the Irish master" (New Yorker) John Banville at his page-turning best. Don't miss John Banville's next novel, April in Spai Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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