★★★★★
GENRE: Mystery
SUBJECT: police corruption
Setting: Quebec, Canada
CHARACTERS: Armand Gamache, Sylvain Francouer, Myrna Landers, Oullette Quints, Therese Brunel, Jerome Brunel, Jean Guy Beauvois
DATE READ: February 15 - February 19
NO. OF PAGES: 675
Challenges: 75, Category, TIOLI, MysteryCAT
SOURCE: NOOK stockpile
PLOT:....................................................................5.00
CHARACTERIZATION:.......................................5.00
TOPICS: ...............................................................5.00
STYLE:..................................................................4.75
ORIGINALITY:.......................................................4.75
ADDICTIVENESS:..............................................4.50
OWNERSHIP:......................................................5.00
Threshold Quality.................................................5.00
Average..............................................................................................4.88
This most recent installment of this tremendous series, is IMHO the best so far. Readers sometimes wonder how a writer can continue to improve, I don't know, but Miss Penny somehow does it.
Regular readers were most probably concerned at the end of the previous book believing that Armand Gamache was on his way out when we look at the devastation to his team, his family in trouble, not to mention that his reputation was shredding. Armand questions his own unit as well as his abilities.
At the beginning we see Gamache at odds with his team members except for Isabelle LaCoste, and then the apparent hatred by Jean Guy Beauvoir. Throughout Gamache manages to remain the character that we have grown to love.
Myrna Landers calls Gamache from Three Pines worrying about a friend who has not shown up in the little village. Through the investigation, Gamache finds the true identity of the victim as well as a location to protect those who are his support against the mystery that has been building at the Sureté.
The friends that we've made over the first 8 books from the village of Three Pines are front and center helping not only in the search for the murderer of Myrna's friend, but also aiding Gamache in his fight against corruption.
It is hard to believe that the corruption that is exposed has been hiding and building throughout the series. Fans of Armand Gamache can only hope that he will remain our hero in the future. Can't wait for the next book!
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