In order to pace myself I read the Inspector Gamache books in the season or month they are set and it has been eight long months since I last visited the greater environs of Three Pines. Book nine, How the Light Gets In, had a feeling of finality to it, of bringing together the various storylines and setting a new normal for our characters. I was unsure what I should expect when it finally came time to read The Long Way Home, what would life […]
Everything is Worth it, After All
Louise Penny has been taking me on quite the rollercoaster with these last few books, but How the Light Gets In feels like my favorite part of the ride: the end. I know there are still several books left in the Inspector Gamache series but I think it may be awhile until I come back to them, because this one made me feel completely satisfied with everyone’s trajectory. How the Light Gets In tells two stories: Inspector Gamache is solving the murder of an elderly […]
A Step Back
Whoo, this book was a struggle. There have been other books in the Gamache series that I didn’t particularly love, but I barely finished this one. It felt like a chore. A Beautiful Mystery has Inspector Gamache and his right-hand man, Inspector Beauvoir, investigating a murder of a monk at an extremely secluded monastery. I know I complained about a previous book in the series having too much going on (the one where he’s investigating the murder of an archaeologist), but this one had the […]
A Return to Form
Throughout 2016 and 2017, I read the Inspector Gamache series as fast as I could (which wasn’t very fast. . .there’s a 2-3 month wait at my library for electronic versions of most of them). But when I got to book 6, Bury Your Dead, I stopped. I didn’t enjoy that one at all, and it was another 10 months before I felt like returning to the series with A Trick of the Light (well, 8 months, plus then waiting another 2 before I could […]
A new A plot, and some big progress in the B plot
This is book three in the Inspector Gamache series, and I am pleasantly surprised and intrigued. I was worried that this would be yet another mystery series that follows checklists every book, like how Eve Dallas always has a consult with Dr. Mira and doesn’t like tea, and Stephanie Plum whines about borrowing Uncle Sandor’s Buick, blah blah blah. We get it, you’ve done that every book for 287 books. While there have been some repeats in the quaint, seemingly-frozen, deadly village of Three Pines […]
Is it better to start a mystery with a character or a corpse?
My mom got me the first two Inspector Gamache books for Christmas, and they are delightful! I saw that book seven showed up on a Cannonballer’s Best Of list for CBR9, so I’m looking forward to the rest of the series. Inspector Gamache solves crimes in Quebec, and these books are COLD. Both books take place in a tiny village called Three Pines, in the dead of winter, and Penny does an excellent job of building the atmosphere and setting. I wanted a croissant and […]
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