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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Another great Louise penny Gamache murder mystery! I like how they dice more into the Arnot case and I’m curious where they’ll take the plot in the next books!
Read this one to catch up with characters, like old friends, to visit Three Pines once again, but not necessarily for the mystery.
The one thing that I felt was off is that the killers in the Gamache books sometimes go from being "normal" people (based on the glimpses of their interior lives) to being mustache-twirling masterminds who've accomplished some insanely complex plans when their crime is revealed. In this one, the amount of dependence the murder plot had on predicting the (sometimes VERY specific) actions of completely uninvolved people for their delicate plan to work...was tough to buy. All the same, I've recommended the Gamache books to others as stories that dive into the inner lives and worlds of the main characters--the mystery is often secondary.
The one thing that I felt was off is that the killers in the Gamache books sometimes go from being "normal" people (based on the glimpses of their interior lives) to being mustache-twirling masterminds who've accomplished some insanely complex plans when their crime is revealed. In this one, the amount of dependence the murder plot had on predicting the (sometimes VERY specific) actions of completely uninvolved people for their delicate plan to work...was tough to buy. All the same, I've recommended the Gamache books to others as stories that dive into the inner lives and worlds of the main characters--the mystery is often secondary.
I want to meet these characters in real life! This series is one of the most lyrical crime novels that I have read, and I enjoy every morsel of its deliciousness.
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is the third in Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series. I remember Anne Bogel saying in one of the What Should I Read Next podcast episodes that the murder premises in the second and third books were strange (which I absolutely agree with), but that she really hits her stride with the fourth book, so I definitely plan on continuing at some point. I found that I enjoyed the secondary plot line more than the main murder. Overall it was weird but okay.
Third in the series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache who is once again called to the idyllic Canadian village of Three Pines to investigate a murder. The cast of characters is getting pleasantly familiar now but it is a little hard to believe that such a quiet, secluded village should have such a high murder rate. Although Gamache and his team investigate the death in Three Pines almost as much time is spent on the ongoing backstory of the ramifications of the Arnot case which has led Gamache to be a pariah in the Montreal Surete. The mystery was enjoyable but Gamache does at time seem to be a little too perfect a detective, which gets irritating after a while.