Louise Penny's Dead Cold
(2006)
In
the Midst of Winter, I picked up this paperback copy of Dead Cold at a library book
sale, not recognizing the cover or the title. But, slowly, I realized
that I have read it before. Although, confession, I remembered the
recurring characters (Chief Inspector Gamache, Beauvoir, Nichol,
painters Clara & Peter Morrow, the Three Graces, the mad poet
Ruth, Myrna and the B&B owners, the town of Three Pines) but I
had blanked out the evil characters - the self-help writer, the
ineffectual husband, the damaged child - and some of the most
important plot points including the murder scene and the fire and the
denouement. Strange. I have read several other Louise Penny titles
starting with her first,
Still Life. I love her
settings in Quebec, Montreal & the Eastern Townships, her details
of the artists' points of view, the moral and ethical challenges of
police work and workplace conflict. So much to grab on to, including
suspense, and what we all look for in crime/murder mysteries - the
surprising resolution, with every dangling thread neatly knotted at
the end. Well, almost every thread.
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