chapita4 's review for:

The Long Way Home by Louise Penny

4.0

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This is such a quietly great book. It isn't often that a mystery novel has such philosophical insights woven throughout the telling of the story. Perhaps one of my favorite quotes was "if love was compass enough..there would be no missing children". I love how this author weaves the story of all the players together and the underlying message of the possibility of redemption. I have not read the other Chief Inspector books but I didn't have trouble following the story at all (with the exception of all the French names which I had to track a bit more carefully).