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hbdee 's review for:
A Rule Against Murder
by Louise Penny
Maybe the best one yet! The "how" of this murder perplexes the team and challenges even Gamache. Gamache is forced to deal with his vertigo--and his father's history, who was a conscientious objector in WWII. He was later with the Red Cross when Bergen Belsen was freed, and the horrors he witnessed there made him change his mind. He spent the rest of his life aiding those who'd been victims.
The author has taken to presenting the afterwards as prologues. Here, she provides a brief list for further reading, of poetry. She quotes some famous poems and some not so famous, here, but all are memorable. There's one called "High Flight" that Ronald Reagan read to the nation after the Challenger disaster. And one my mother used to recite from memory to all the neighborhood kids at Halloween (I was so delighted to see it): Robert Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee."
Again, central themes include family--and forgiveness. But there's also wonderful humor here, especially provided by Gamache's sidekick, Jean Guy Beauvoir, who considers himself to be worldly but responds like a 6th grader to a book about bees! He simply cannot stop quoting it and saying things like, "Did you know this about bees? How amazing!" Gamache calls them Beauvoir's "bee bulletins."
You know you've read a great novel when your notes comprise fully half the book or more, and Amazon tells you it's too much to save.
The author has taken to presenting the afterwards as prologues. Here, she provides a brief list for further reading, of poetry. She quotes some famous poems and some not so famous, here, but all are memorable. There's one called "High Flight" that Ronald Reagan read to the nation after the Challenger disaster. And one my mother used to recite from memory to all the neighborhood kids at Halloween (I was so delighted to see it): Robert Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee."
Again, central themes include family--and forgiveness. But there's also wonderful humor here, especially provided by Gamache's sidekick, Jean Guy Beauvoir, who considers himself to be worldly but responds like a 6th grader to a book about bees! He simply cannot stop quoting it and saying things like, "Did you know this about bees? How amazing!" Gamache calls them Beauvoir's "bee bulletins."
You know you've read a great novel when your notes comprise fully half the book or more, and Amazon tells you it's too much to save.