Snow, Banville - B+

                   The past is not even past, particularly in 1957 Ireland when a Garda detective investigates the vicious murder of an RC priest at a Protestant's home. The evisceration points in a likely direction, but the Archbishop would prefer no one looking  that way. The author has won a Booker and, needless to say, has a way with words. Three hundred easy-reading pages pass in a flash.