A review by bonnieg
A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny

4.0

I started reading this series with later books and then went back to start at the beginning. It was disappointing to find I didn't much like the first book, or the second. After that things began to pick up, and with this book Penny really hits her stride. The solution to the mystery felt tacked on and unsatisfying, but otherwise this was a joy. Taking us out of Three Pines and creating a real Agatha Christie suspects-in-the-manor- house scenario was genius, and letting us spend a length of time with the Gamaches, seeing their devotion, was also really fun and sweet and added so much dimension to Rene-Marie who is so often represented in short phone calls. A lovely read.