He accepts it and is a very happy guy anyway, either because of or in spite of continuous inner reflection. I’d also like to add that Armand Gamache is a nice change from the usual run of police detectives in that he has a very happy marriage and, apart from enjoying his food a little too much, has no apparent vices. Of course, the accident turns out to be no accident at all, and there are so many people who detested C.

Can it be possibly be coincidence that CC’s book, Be Calm, has the same name as the meditation center Bea Mayer, known as Mother, runs in Three Pines? More emotion, in depth character analysis, and what is perceived and what is really inside peoples minds. Highly recommended for those who want a ‘quieter’ murder mystery with tons of Canadiana embedded in the narrative.Heck, I may remember a dog or two getting some thoughts in although it could be that I'm just remembering Gamache translating doggie thoughts. CC is talk of the town, though not for anything she has done, even though she’d be happy to espouse her new-age way of living. With a cast of recurring quirky characters who make the town bistro the center of their lives, I have a feeling I will be back in Three Pines for the long haul. If she bought the niacin before Christmas Eve how did she travel to wherever she got it (and this is supposing without evidence that she knew about the electric heater).

In the case of my book club, most of the Louise Penny fans were perfectly happy with the book, while others of us were less enthusiastic. He'd see people smiling at each other as they got their cappuccinos at the café, or their fresh flowers or their baguettes.

They were as warm and brilliant and funny as you might imagine from reading Louise’s books, and it’s been a joy to work with her ever since. This is the one with a shocking curling match, a stinky dedication, and a weird ball retrieved from a dumpster. In thinking about it, it occurred to me that, on the one hand, you have the world of Three Pines and, on the other, for example, the world of Matthew Scudder's New York City as imagined by Lawrence Block. Not just for executioners, this person figured the complicated logistics to carry it out and it was perplexing to all involved. I’m wondering if you mean that Yvette has somehow become the repository for the fears of her family.

When Saul turns up at the Bistro on Christmas, Myrna invites him to the community breakfast and curling match on the following day. When Saul’s photos are developed, they somehow do not include any shots from the time of the murder.We find out more about Gamache's own troubled past, especially the mysterious "Arnot case" which made him a pariah among the brass at the Police Sûreté, and we are pulled deeper into the overarching series plot of how Gamache will (or may not) survive the inter-departmental politics and the plotting of his enemies who want to bring him down. Myrna looked out the window and wondered whether their peace, so fragile and precious, was about to be shattered.

I loved the way your wrote about the Hadley House, as though it were a young boy in short pants shuffling its feet and saying, “It wasn’t me that did it! It’s a lot like one of those Florida senior villages, where the staff always tries to shut out all the nasty shadows of life. Obnoxious, cruel, -she was maddeningly bad news- to the people who knew who she was, but did not reveal the secret.And while the book talked a lot about light Saul found it interesting and ironic that it had actually been released on the winter solstice. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache solves more murders while surrounded by the sparkling personalities that compose the small town of Three Pines in Canada. No one liked CC de Poitiers – not her daughter, not her husband, not her lover, and certainly not her neighbors. And the cables aren’t short – they run all the way back along the side of the bleachers to behind, where the truck is?