Publisher's Synopsis
'The body is in the library,' Colonel Osborne said. 'Come this way.' Following the discovery of the corpse of a highly respected parish priest at Ballyglass House - the County Wexford family seat of the secretive, aristocratic Osborne family - 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. But as the snow continues to fall over this ever-expanding mystery, the people of Ballyglass are equally determined to keep their secrets. "A master of high-class crime fiction, literary noir in the tradition of Georges Simenon and Raymond Chandler." GUARDIAN
