'Snow'
John Banville
'Snow', John Banville. This rich thriller set in 1950s Ireland starts with the homicide of a minister and unfurls in the way of an exemplary wrongdoing novel by Banville's adjust personality, Benjamin Black. An investigator embarks to discover the offender among individuals from an Anglo-Irish family, and uncovers a snake pit of privileged insights all the while. "Over and over, Banville sets up and afterward deftly obliterates the Agatha Christie design he is by all accounts aping," William Boyd writes in his survey. "All that appears to be creakingly recognizable about the nation house murder ends up being more obscure even hazier." Banville, Boyd adds, "is one of the incredible beauticians of fiction in English and 'Day off' the clear rhythms of his exposition free rein."