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DYSFUNCTIONAL DEATH

A family that dislikes each other comes together for a reunion.

Gamache must sort all of this out when
a weird death occurs.

Find time to read and attempt to solve this mystery. Bet you can‘t!!

Back in Quebec with Inspector Gamache. Strange murder in a beautiful setting.
I read a bit more about the author‘s life so the second book feels more intimate.

Absolutely love the colours on the cover and no library bar code in the front as usual!! 💜

As always, Louise Penny has written another intricately woven mystery that Gamache, Beauvoir, and Lacoste must understand all of the facets of in order to solve it and bring those responsible to justice. A murder in the church seems to be related to the sudden appearance of a stranger in Three Pines. This stranger is dressed as a cobrador, an emotional debt collector meant to shame the guilty party.

TWO FOR ONE—
Penny gives us a mysterious death caused by the occult AND The Gamache take down by his best friend—

Both full of regrets and the time no one wins.

(2010) Sixth in the Three Pines/Inspector Gamache series of mysteries. I'd been putting this one off because vol. 5 (The Brutal Telling) pissed me off (IYKYK) so I was mollified that BYD follows up on threads that TBT left dangling. It seems a little busy with what felt to me like one subplot too many, but the mystery(ies) is(are) fine, the character development is appealing, and I will read another. This was an ear-read for a long drive.

Three Pines offers up another dead body. Inspector Gamache and his team, still recovering from events in the last 2 books, solve the crime in this top-notch Penny book. Clara‘s artwork continues to make waves and it‘s the art community that is under the microscope. Not a simple whodunnit, here are many capable culprits. The team must dig deep to find clues, even infiltrating an Alcoholics Anonymous group. I do enjoy my time spent in Three Pines.

Saturday morning #coffeeandabook ☕️📚

There was silence before Myrna spoke again. “Fucking Ruth.“

It struck Gamache that maybe that was Ruth's real name. It was certainly her given name. He considered the christening.

“What do you name this child?“ the minister asked.

“Fucking Ruth,“ her godparents replied. It would have been a prescient choice.

And we're back! I suspect Penny saw all the “the monks are so boring, I want Twin Pines!“ comments and decided to give the people what they want. 😂 This is an action movie of a book, with tremendously high stakes, both personal and global. The Twin Pines characters provide a moral center and much needed comic relief. I'm not convinced the author wasn't messing with us, but it was a great pageturner and tearjerker of a read, so I don't care. 😂

FOUR KINDS of SECRETS-Plain-Weak-Appealing-Mythical, that come together to help Gamache investigate a mysterious death.

This novel is character heavy,however, all help in interesting ways and all add to the investigation.

Be prepared-each time you think you have this solved-you are wrong!