Chief Inspector Gamache has come to Quebec City to
recover from an investigation gone bad, very bad, Armand’s wounds are physical
and non-physical. The investigation and
its outcome are revealed to the reader in bits and pieces as the events play
out in his head over and over throughout the novel. A very interesting technique that pushes the
plot forward.
As in the other Three Pines novels, the author writes
beautifully of the setting. I felt as
though I walked the winter streets of the very old Quebec City and visited the
Literary and Historical Society Library where, of course, because this is a crime
series, there is a murder.
I was especially glad to read this one back-to-back
with THE BRUTAL TELLING because it put to rest the feeling of something
unfinished in Three Pines.
Wonderful characters continue to reveal themselves
as humans you want to know, and, in case I haven’t mentioned before, hilarious
moments of dark humor roll through the dialogue. I love this series.
Minotaur,
2010 371 p.
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