sim40 's review for:

The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
2.0
I’ve read some of the other comments and I feel I should clarify that I don’t rate it merely ‘ok’ because of the slow bits or because of all the talk about art. I liked the slow bits. I find the bits about art very well written, better then most authors I've read who try this sort of thing. Some chapters were very funny.
It’s the ending I find unsatisfying. There are quite a few loose threads that are just left hanging:
SpoilerScotland, Vachon's Behaviour, Peter's letter …
Are they important? No. But the author made them seem mysterious for shorter or longer passages, and as a reader I feel betrayed if in the end there is no explanation whatsoever of these admittedly unimportant side-mysteries. Say what you want about red herrings, without them, Death on the Nile wouldn't be as brilliant as it is; but there's no way aroud the obligation as an author to give a plausible explanation for your red herrings, however briefly.