A classic by John Banville, a popular candidate for the Nobel Prize and winner of the Booker Prize! The pinnacle of mystery novels in recent years!
The perfect combination of ancient reasoning elements and the evil of modern human nature!
In 1957, a parish priest died mysteriously in the mysterious ancestral home of the Osborne family.
Inspector St. John Strafford was sent from Dublin to investigate. As the blizzard rages, local residents remain silent. Despite the obstacles he faces, he remains determined to find the killer. As the investigation deepens, he discovers that the Osborne family is hiding ulterior secrets...
Booker Prize winner John Banville adopts a classic suspense novel structure and writes a meticulously crafted novel that eliminates the boundaries between literary novels and crime novels and makes it difficult to put down.