Summary: The arrival in Three Pines of a sister and brother involved in a murder case that brought Armand and Jean Guy and the opening of a sealed room and the strange painting found within confront Gamache with two of his greatest fears.

I’ve just included publication info, a brief summary, and a link to the full review.Ī World of Curiosities, Louise Penny. But if you are like me and want to go back and remember, this might prove helpful. While I try to avoid spoilers in the reviews, those of subsequent books may give away plot details you’d rather discover for yourself if you haven’t read the previous ones. I thought it would be fun to create a page with all my Gamache reviews. The older I get, the more I find myself saying these things and I find myself looking back at my younger self and wish I’d learned this wisdom sooner. Finally, there are Gamache’s four sentences that lead to wisdom: I also have been provoked to thought, and not a little self-examination, by Penny’s insight that a murder often begins many years before with a nursed grievance allowed to fester. Like so many readers, I want to live in Three Pines, or foster the kind of Three Pines community where I live (perhaps one of Penny’s hopes).

Particularly, I want to grow up to be like Armand! Equally, I find myself deeply appreciating the strong and diverse female characters–Reine Marie, Clara, Myrna, Isabelle Lacoste, and of course, Ruth (and Rosa!). While Penny’s books are often favored by women readers, I’ve found myself drawn by the strong male characters, especially Armand and Jean Guy. This has quite simply been one of the best series I’ve read. For the moment, there are no more Gamache novels to read, unless I go back and re-read the series. I recently finished Louise Penny’s The Madness of Crowds, the seventeenth in her Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, and the most recently published. Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay

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