This is the first time I’ve read a book by Louise Penny –and I’ll be looking at others besides Dead Cold [ISBN 978 0 7553 2893 2] because its such a well-written book. It has an excellent, quite clever plot, and a wonderful context – winter and Christmas in Quebec – an excellent sleuth – Chief Inspector Gamache – and a whole load of rounded and fascinating characters – as well as a pacy narrative.
This is the first time I’ve read a book by Louise Penny –and I’ll be looking at others besides Dead Cold [ISBN 978 0 7553 2893 2] because its such a well-written book. It has an excellent, quite clever plot, and a wonderful context – winter and Christmas in Quebec – an excellent sleuth – Chief Inspector Gamache – and a whole load of rounded and fascinating characters – as well as a pacy narrative.
Set in the village of Three Pines, which has become upset by the ingress of a strange businesswomen – CC de Poitiers. Why has she bought a house in Three Pines anyway? Her husband is ineffectual against her aggressiveness and her overweight daughter verbally abused. People don’t like her – but who could hate her enough to electrocute her – and how on earth do you electrocute someone sat on the ice and watching a curling match ? Gamache has his job cut out to work through the clues and he is hampered by a hostile colleague Agent Nichols.
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