Ugh. So this book ticked me off. There were two major plots going on in this book that did not work well together at all. Spoilers for events in book #5. At the end of book #5, "The Brutal Telling" Olivier is charged with manslaughter when all signs points to him as the murderer of a hermit that...
Have you ever finished a book and just wandered about aimlessly, unable to settle at doing anything, unable to concentrate because you're just busy feeling? That's how I've felt for the past hour or thereabouts. Since I finished Bury Your Dead. Moonlight Murder was right. It was indeed a deva...
Maybe I'm still numb from The Brutal Telling. Maybe I'm tired of pivotal past events being fed to me in disjointed bits and pieces. Maybe those pivotal past events needed their own book to do them justice. Whatever the reason, I just did not connect to this book on anywhere near the same emotional l...
This book. This book is the reason to read the five books that preceded it. Gamache has been called to a dead body in the basement of the Literary and Historical Society, the repository of English speaking history in old Quebec. He begins to question the ending and conviction at the end of the bru...
Having grown up in Canada, I think I most appreciated Penny's Quebec City setting and mood. Her descriptions of walking outdoors in frigid temperatures, having one's soul exposed to the brittle elements, are spot on. My first Penny novel; won't be my last.
Those who have seen my reviews know I have a rule that I don’t give away the story. Once in a while I bend that rule, but in this case to paraphrase Mark Twain I have to throw it down and dance upon it because there is no other way to explain my rating. So for those of you who don’t like spoilers, k...
This is a book of three stories.Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is on leave in Quebec City where he gets drawn into a murder in the library where he is conducting historical research. It soon becomes clear that in order to solve the present day mystery he has to look at the mysteries surrounding the ...
Each Louise Penny book I read gets better and better. This one, I closed my eyes and swore I could be watching an episode of Midsomer murders with the development and quirkiness of each of the characters. I just really, really enjoy this series.
Louise Penny's books have quickly become favorites of mine and I wait in anticipation each time I hear there is going to be a new one! This latest installment takes place (for the most part) outside of Three Pines and even though that usually means I will enjoy the story (slightly) less, this was no...
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is visiting an old friend in Quebec city, taking time off after a recent major case. Gamache tries to lose himself in the library of the literary and historical society, but winds up investigating a murder instead. Augustin Renaud, a well known researcher of Samuel de ...
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