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A thriller in Paris.

All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16) by Louise Penny

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This was a major improvement on the last few books. It feels like Penny is getting her groove back. This book featured an implausibly large conspiracy, and I didn’t even think to complain about it once! The whole book takes place in Paris. Gamache and Reine-Marie are in Paris because Annie and Beauvoir’s baby is coming, and they want to be there for the birth (they moved to Paris last book, if you recall). The Gamache’s other son Daniel, who I dislike, also lives in […]

Hopefully the last one of these I three-star for a while.

A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15) by Louise Penny

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Not too much to say about this one. Not one of my favorites of this series. Parts of it I really liked, and parts of it I really did not. It’s been over a month now, and I’ve read 1,000 books since then, so I’m really not remembering specifics here. I remember there was a missing woman, and that plotline was interesting. I wished I was more interested in the plotline where Gamache comes back to be the head of the homicide department, a move […]

The only thing wrong with small towns are the people who live there.

Glass Houses by Louise Penny

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Dare I hope that I will continue enjoying the later Gamache books much more than the early ones? This series has really been touch and go for me since the beginning, but I’ve enjoyed most of the later ones quite a bit. Glass Houses was no exception, even with a plot that’s ludicrous even by Louise Penny standards (in addition to the weapons of mass destruction from a few books ago, the town of Three Pines is now also [SPOILER] the #1 location on the Canadian/U.S. border […]

“Life was far from harried here. But neither was it still.”

Still Life by Louise Penny

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In a small village in Quebec, a beloved retired teacher is found dead in the woods. She has been shot through the heart by an arrow. Is it murder, or simply a tragic hunting accident? Enter Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, sent from Montreal to investigate. In the way of murder mysteries everywhere, the tiny village of Three Pines is full of odd characters, many of whom are hiding secrets. This is not quite a cozy mystery, and not quite a procedural, either. What this book […]

State of Terror

State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny

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Don’t be mad at me. But this book was not good.  It did not help that then we have Armand Gamache and the village of Three Pines come into play which makes me shudder about where Penny plans on taking that series. The characters were not developed very well (and this is in a 500 page book). The writing was repetitive and I honestly don’t want to read the words Madame Secretary for like a fortnight. The flow was awful. The setting of the White […]

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A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny

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In a way, it doesn’t help to be reading a series well after some of its books are published when it’s as highly sequential as the Inspector Gamache books are. I’ve also been regularly dipping in and out of novels in Ngaio Marsh’s Inspector Alleyn series, and the serialization is much, much lighter, which means you can read them out of order. No such luck with Louise Penny, which was a downside here because I was pretty sure that Gamache’s new job, as the commander […]



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