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kimmiekm 's review for:
A Rule Against Murder
by Louise Penny
"A Rule Against Murder" wasn't set in Three Pines, but at a secluded semi-resort where Gamache and his wife are spending their anniversary. But we still get to hang out with Clara and Peter from Three Pines because they have been invited to the Manoir Bellechasse for a family reunion. We see that Peter's family is awful and bizarrely mean (but I've thought Peter is a terrible person anyway, since book 1 of the series, so this wasn't all that shocking), and of course someone ends up dead.
I liked this mystery, and I didn't guess the murderer at all, but there was a very shallow subplot that I found really quite unrealistic and I couldn't understand why Gamache or anyone else was thinking, feeling, saying, or doing any of the things they were doing. It was like this episode of the Brady Bunch I saw when I was a kid where Peter gets cast as Benedict Arnold in the school play, and all his classmates are like, "OMG you're Benedict Arnold?! Traitor!" And I was 8 years old having no idea why kids were reacting that way because no kid would ever care at all that another kid was playing a traitor in a play. Each scene with the not-emotional-at-all-but-way-over-the-top-drama of the subplot was such an eye roll for me.
I've read four Inspector Gamache books now, and while I love Gamache and Three Pines, I'm finding some things about the series and Penny's writing are starting to be a little disappointing for me. We'll see how book 5 goes!
I liked this mystery, and I didn't guess the murderer at all, but there was a very shallow subplot that I found really quite unrealistic and I couldn't understand why Gamache or anyone else was thinking, feeling, saying, or doing any of the things they were doing. It was like this episode of the Brady Bunch I saw when I was a kid where Peter gets cast as Benedict Arnold in the school play, and all his classmates are like, "OMG you're Benedict Arnold?! Traitor!" And I was 8 years old having no idea why kids were reacting that way because no kid would ever care at all that another kid was playing a traitor in a play. Each scene with the not-emotional-at-all-but-way-over-the-top-drama of the subplot was such an eye roll for me.
I've read four Inspector Gamache books now, and while I love Gamache and Three Pines, I'm finding some things about the series and Penny's writing are starting to be a little disappointing for me. We'll see how book 5 goes!