A BETTER MAN

 Louise Penny. A BETTER MAN. St. Martin's, 2019.

Armand Gamache has returned to the Surete after being disciplined. He has accepted a demotion and will take over Jean-Guy's Head of Homicide once J=G moves to Paris. In this story, an abused wife drowns in a flooding river and the original charges against the first suspect are dropped. Internal politics, community strengths, the damage done by cruel words. 

KINGDOM OF THE BLIND

January 14, 2019

Penny, Louise. KINGDOM OF THE BLIND.

Another Inspector Armand Gamache mystery. While he is suspended, a woman loosely connected to Three Pines names Gamache as one of her executors. A generations-long contested estate. Investment fraud. Recovery from the GLASS HOUSES drug-smuggling investigation. Winter in Quebec. Gripping. 

GLASS HOUSES

November 4, 2018.

Louise Penny. GLASS HOUSES. St. Martin's Press, 2017. An Inspector Gamache mystery, about the hooded cobrador haunting Three Pines, the mystery of who the target is, and the banality of evil. 

BURY YOUR DEAD

Louise Penny. BURY YOUR DEAD. 2010.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is resting up in Quebec City with Emile Comeau, his old mentor, when he agrees to help investigate a murder of a Champlain fanatic whose body is found in the basement of an English-language historical society. As he investigates, Gamache re-lives the trauma of a recent hostage-taking terrorist take-down which led to four dead officers. The funeral was national news. Both he and Jean-Guy Beauvoir are injured.The details of the terrorist plan are sketchy, helping us anticipate further revelations. 

Jean-Guy has been sent to review a murder in Three Pines, to ensure that the convicted felon is really guilty. 

Beautiful evocations of the Quebec winter. 

A Great Reckoning

July 13, 2017

Louise Penny. A Great Reckoning. Minotaur, 2016.

#12 in the Inspector Gamache series. Commander Gamache comes out of stress leave and attempts to clean up the rot in the police academy. Another great Three Pines mystery.

The Nature of the Beast

Monday, August 15, 2016

Louise Penny's The Nature of the Beast. Minotaur, 2015.

Another page turner, about  Inspector Gamache, Three Pines, a "weapon of mass destruction," the people who design them, make them, sell them, and fear them.