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I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again- If Louise Penny writes it, I’ll read it (and love it), and if Three Pines was real, I’d move there in a heartbeat.
This year, Louise Penny’s latest Armand Gamache novel, The Madness of Crowds, is not only a difficult book to summarize, as hers always are; it’s a difficult book to read. I understand what she is doing with the book, which I can’t really say without spoiling it, but that doesn’t mean it was easy. It felt as if it was too soon, and, with the resurgence of COVID in the U.S., it really felt as if it was too soon to read this book. I’m going to admit I was upset for the first 150 pages or so. This
Midway between Christmas and New Year, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache was enjoying family time at his home in Three Pines, and it was there that he received a request to provide security for Professor Abigail Robinson who had arrived in the area, preparing for a talk at a local stadium. When Armand checked up on the professor, watched some of her other events online, he was alarmed. He knew this should be cancelled, that it would prove to be dangerous. The Chancellor of the University was who Ar...
I have such mixed feelings about this latest entry in the Three Pines/Inspector Gamache series. On the plus side, it’s always wonderful to spend time with the cherished regulars, like Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir and their families, Clara Morrow, Olivier and Gabri from the bistro, Myrna, and even Ruth. The book begins in Three Pines with all of Armand’s family temporarily living with him and Reine-Marie, in a cold and snowy run-up to Christmas and the New Year. It’s pleasant, too, to rea...
It's always a joy to pick up Louise Penny's latest in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, Head of Homicide at the Surete, series set in the stunning Canadian location of the Three Pines village in Quebec. This addition has contagion as the central theme running through it, here the people have emerged from the horrors of Covid, but its impact continues as rising numbers begin to support the unpalatable lunatic theories and ideas being put forward by the seemingly normal and innocuous statistics
You should never start a Louise Penny book expecting a normal mystery. Her books totally transcend the genre. She incorporates philosophy, art, poetry and politics into her stories. While some series get stale after a certain number of books, if anything, Penny’s is getting better. And this counts as one of my favorite books of 2021. This time, Gamache is asked to help police a speech being given by a professor, a charismatic personality putting forth an economic agenda that tears at the country...
The Madness Of Crowds was better than All The Devils Are Here, but that’s not saying much and I wasn’t keen on it.Back in Three Pines (thank heavens!) Gamache is, implausibly, given the job of policing a talk by a very controversial academic. This leads to lots of moral dilemmas, violence and ultimately a death. He and his team/family then have to find the killer, which involves a lot of historical delving, some thoroughly unlikely coincidences and yet more moral soul-searching.Frankly, I found
