Oddly enough a new character comes to Three Pines and affects the future of one member. Ratchets up the tension and then fits in some appropriate humor that makes us laugh. She shows us friendship, love, respect, integrity, compassion, kindness and the struggle to know when to hold on and when to let go. Characteristics based on the past, the present, life experiences that make us the people we are.

She shows us the many depths of personality that can live inside one person. All combined seamlessly in the lives of various members of the community we have come to love. The issues of climate change, abuse and the devastation it causes, and the good and bad of social media. In this one, I my opinion, she outdid herself, combining some important issues of the day, with an outstanding, difficult to solve mystery.

Do I read it quickly because really I don't want to put it down, or do I read it slowly because I don't want it to end? How does she do it? This is the 15th I the Three Pines series and it keeps getting better and better. What would you do if your child's killer walked free?Įverytime I start reading a Louise Penny novel I am confronted with a dilemma. In the next novel in this 'constantly surprising series that deepens and darkens as it evolves' ( The New York Times Book Review), Gamache must face a horrific possibility, and a burning question.

Increasingly hounded by the question, how would you feel., he resumes the search.Īs the rivers rise, and the social media onslaught against Gamache becomes crueler, a body is discovered. But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father. In the middle of the turmoil, a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter.Īs crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. Floodwaters are rising across the province. It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.

A Better Man by Louise Penny