The Brutal Telling takes us back to Three Pines to investigate the murder of a hermit. I continue to be on the fence for this series, but I like the narrator and I've become accustomed to his style, so I do enjoy listening to the books. The characters continue to become intriguing and I look forw...
This one was fantastic. This book shakes things up in Three Pines when one of the characters we know and love (Olivier) is looking like a likely suspect in the murder of a hermit. Readers are given insights into Olivier and it was like finding out someone you have been hanging out with for a long ti...
Best one yet! With this book, I think Louise Penny is now my favourite mystery author, just bypassing Barbara Hambly (Benjamin January Mysteries). We're back in Three Pines and this book, #5, will rip your heart out. At least it did mine. Louise Penny is not afraid to let her characters experie...
The fifth book in the Armand Gamache series takes quite a different turn, still ending in Three Pines, but we find it twisted and dark rather than cozy. I connected much less with this novel than the previous ones and was actually tempted to simply DNF it a few times. If I had been reading rather th...
After ruminating for a whole day, I still don't know how to review this book, so I'm just going to throw five stars at it and go sweep the pieces of my shattered heart into a corner so they don't get stepped on.
This is really the start to the duology of books 5 & 6, which should be read together. I can't imagine being current on this series, and reading book 5 but not being able to move into book 6. Book 5 ostensibly ends, and then upon beginning book 6, we realize that, in fact, the brutal telling hasn't ...
I haven’t read the other books in this series, and this is apparently book #5. I can see why so many love Penny, though. Her characters are well drawn, and the mystery isn’t the most mysterious I have ever read. At least the murder mystery isn’t . The central aspect of the story i...
This poor small town, how many bad things can happen before you think the place is cursed. The murderer to me felt like the mostly likely but maybe not the one who actually did it. Maybe we'll see more in a later book. What happened with Claire was the saddest part for me. I'm glad there was a H...
The Brutal Telling is the fifth of Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Gamache novels. Murder has once again happened in the tiny, seemingly idyllic Quebec village of Three Pines, and Chief Inspector Gamache, along with Inspectors Beauvoir and Lacoste head out from the city to solve the case. They stay...
I love Louise Penny's provincial little town of Surete du Quebec, Montreal, Canada! With each new book she has come out, it reminds me more and more of Agatha Christie's Poirot character. This book is fantastic with its' quirky characters and deep down mystery!
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