....Did she omit the best parts...Anne come on. I live for romantic letters. This is how L.M. Montgomery is torturing me: Withholding Anne's romantic bits of her letters, and withholding Gilbert's letters. Curses.I love Anne. She still reminds me so much of myself. The whole tendency for people to just share things with me.
....He's chloroforming her....
WHY WOULD YOU SKIP THE TWO MONTHS. L.M. Montgomery torments and vexes me.
Yup Anne knew where THAT conversation with Terry was going.
Can someone please punch Hazel.
Elizabeth...You deserve every tomorrow.
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In this Inspector Gamache novel, author Louise Penny changes up the formula a bit. While Inspector Gamache is in Quebec City for Winter Carnivale, his second in command Jean-Guy is in Three Pines continuing to unofficially investigate the murder from the previous story, A Brutal Telling. The murder in Quebec City involves an amateur historian-anthropologist and gives the reader an understanding of Quebec history and the Anglo French divide. Jean-Guy is working to find conclusive evidence that Olivier, the Bistro owner, is either guilty or not. The break from the usual procedure is refreshing, for it introduces other aspects of both main characters' personalities as well as solves two complex murders. I highly recommend this series.
This fourth in the Inspector Gamache mysteries begins with Armand Gamache and his wife, Reine-Marie Gamache celebrating their wedding anniversary with a stay at the remote Manoir Bellechasse, a luxury inn located not far from the village of Three Pines. Also there is the rich, self-important Morrow family, there for a reunion. Of course, the idyllic setting is interrupted with a brutal murder, which puts Inspector Gamache and his team to work on an extraordinary mystery -- one that forces the Inspector to confront his innermost fears and a family history that haunts him.
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team investigate another bizarre
crime in the tiny Québec village of Three Pines in Penny's expertly
plotted third murder mystery. As the
townspeople gather in the abandoned and perhaps haunted Hadley house for
a séance with a visiting psychic, Madeleine Favreau collapses,
apparently dead of fright. No one has a harsh word to say about
Madeleine, but Gamache knows there is always more to the case than meets the
eye. Complicating his inquiry are the repercussions of Gamache having
accused his popular superior at the Sûreté du Québec of heinous crimes
in a previous case. Fearing there might be a mole on his team, Gamache
works not only to solve the murder but to clear his name. Arthur Ellis
Award–winner, Louise Penny paints a vivid picture of the French-Canadian
village, its inhabitants, and a determined detective.
In this second Inspector Gamache novel, readers are returned to the Canadian village of Three Pines, where CC de Poitiers has been found mysteriously electrocuted while sitting in a lawn chair on a frozen lake, in front of the entire town, during the annual curling tournament. She is not a well-liked citizen, in fact, as Inspector Gamache and his team investigate, they determine that nearly everyone in the town disliked her. Slowly, but surely Gamache peels back layer after layer in his search
for the killer. With each layer peeled away, he learns something new
about the residents of the small town, about the deceased, and about the
murderer.
This first of the series introduces Chief Inspector Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators when they are called in to
the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal, Three Pines. Jane Neal, a beloved retired school teacher has been found dead on a trail in the nearby woods from an arrow. While the locals feel certain it must have been a hunting accident, Inspector Gamache isn't convinced, and he and his team skillfully investigate the cast of colorful characters and determine that it was indeed murder. This is a popular series that I look forward to enjoying.