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Snow
- A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery
- Narrated by: Stanley Townsend
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Summary
'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come this way.'
Detective Inspector St John Strafford is called in from Dublin to investigate a murder at Ballyglass House - the Co. Wexford family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family.
Facing obstruction from all angles, Strafford 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.
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'Outstanding.' Irish Independent
'Exquisite.' Daily Mail
'Hypnotic.' Financial Times
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- AM
- 17-02-22
Wonderful
A pretty much perfect novel. Beautifully written with not a word out of place, incredibly vivid characterisation and enough of a plot to race along with. The reader's voice is dreamy and I wanted it to go on forever. Gorgeous, grim, terrifying and sad. Loved this.
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- A P TWIBILL
- 10-03-24
Great to listen to
standard whodunnit but with lots of twists and turns. Interesting characters highlighted by excellent narration. What a great voice!
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- Cowboy
- 18-01-22
Lovely richly descriptive story
Beautifully crafted story which has been brought to life perfectly by the narrator. Thoroughly recommend this book and Audiobook.
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- Wendy Barton
- 11-01-22
Brilliant performance and bags of atmosphere.
Atmospheric, intriguing, wonderful performance by Stanley Townsend. Beautifully written like all John Banville's work. Very dark themes and one particularly disturbing chapter. Not a typical thriller and all the better for it.
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- donna coleman
- 17-12-23
a quick read
moderately interesting, may well look for more in this series but not at the top of my go-to listing
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- Derek S.
- 29-04-24
Well written mystery
A good friend recommended John Banville to me, a friend who, it has to be said, has a penchant for the slightly miserable in his reading choices (and his cinematic choices come to that) so I wasn't expecting to ‘enjoy’ the books as one would, say, a Micheal Connelly or a Richard Osman, my expectations turned out to be correct.
The books are billed as Mysteries and there are two main protagonists, a detective and a pathologist. In the first couple of books (I've just started the third) the detective doesn't really do much detecting and the pathologist doesn't get near a dead body, what holds the interest is the character development, storyline and the quite sublime writing style which can approach the realms of the poetic at times.
The books are beautifully read, lots of distinct accents and voices for the characters, nicely paced and totally right for the subject matter, before long you can't imagine anyone else reading them (probably the best yardstick for a narrator?)
I'm on the third book now and I'm kind of intrigued as to how things will develop between the two main series characters because they've hardly met in the first two books. Athough this is a series, so far it's reading like one big book and I would recommended reading in the published order as events in the past have profound influence on later happenings.
Regarding my earlier comment on the ‘miserable’ nature of the books I suppose this is mainly due to subject matter. If you take the time period involved (after the war to the early sixties), the location (Ireland), the sociorelgious context (Protestantism, ,Catholicism, poverty) then perhaps you can imagine some of the more harrowing themes explored (no spoilers here). It certainly isn't a laugh a minute although there are a few amusing strands that run through the narrative, mainly to do with the characters proper and nick names (which most of the characters seem to have) and their various ailments and visages, nothing much situational that will make you smile!
Not a police procedural then (procedure was often followed with little allacrity back in those days) and definitely not a cosy murder mystery and not really enough thrills for a thriller. There's a definite whodunnit in there but I'd hazard a guess that if you're a mystery/detective novel officianado, you'll work it out.
I'm going to persevere with these gentle if gloomy mystery books and see what happens.
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- monica
- 01-01-22
great story and narration
I enjoyed this story a lot. Very engaging content. the narrator did an excellent job.
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- McDermoV
- 17-01-21
Snowball shurely??
I would expect a book by John Banville to be well-written, which this is but he’s no Agatha Christie. There is a plot twist at the end, but much of it is predictable and the characters verge on charicatures of rural Ireland, Garda stock-types (drunken sergeant, lippy basic rank) and the Anglo-Irish family, from retired officer father down are straight out of central casting. It is read in a way that exaggerates the accents in a slightly distracting fashion.
However, I did enjoy it and finished it, which I can’t say of all fiction I consume these days.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-02-23
Storytelling at its best
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. A rich narrative with well developed characters who each came to life through excellent writing and narration. Some gruesome happenings but somehow it was a comforting read thanks to the Irish magic. I wanted a little more help to grasp the fine details of whodunnit but maybe it was intentional to leave it unsaid.
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- Gerry Moira
- 25-10-23
A gripping tale well-told
Perhaps typically of Banville this is almost two books in one. A country house who-dunnit is streaked through with a visceral examination of paedophilia and the Catholic Church; delivered with 5-star narration.
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