A World of Curiosities: A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery, NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES CALLED THREE PINES

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Louise Penny’s series protagonist Armand Gamache, the head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, is no one’s first notion of an action hero. When I turn on the news or even open social media, I get all of that in spades, I don’t want to read about it in fiction novels too.

However, when I pick up a fiction novel, I want to escape the world, and in this case, escape to Three Pines. While he was able to bring the police officials who were implicated to justice, he quickly determined that the two children had been the ones to kill their mother. Each two-episode arc takes its plot from a single novel, with one story, about the disappearance of an Indigenous woman, threading throughout the season. There is little character development, almost no humor, the award winning style of her other books is entirely missing. If a book is part of a larger series, I believe it needs to be judged on its merits and that of its fellow books.

The police do, though, to let her know his body has been found by the side of a path on Walthamstow Marshes.

Despite the traumatic events (which take place in their beloved house in Three Pines), at the end of the novel, Gamache and Reine-Marie are able to feel a sense of peace, calm, and safety in their community. Second, the novel’s main antagonist, the serial killer Fleming, is imbued with too many contradictory characteristics.

It was well received by critics and an immediate number one best seller in the hardback fiction charts. I can't imagine someone trying to sort through this who didn't already know Armand, Reine-Marie, Jean-Guy, Ruth, Myrna, Gabri, Amelia.

I suppose it’s part and parcel of my needing a sense of space in my fiction, whether an imaginary environment like Gormenghast or that of Piranesi’s carceri, or descriptions of real geography in fiction. it begins in the past, with recollections of the murder of a prostitute and drug addict whose two children were discovered to be victims of sexual abuse. This is the 18th title in the series featuring Armand Gamache, head of the Sûreté du Québec, and his friends and neighbours in the small village of Three Pines. She imbues some of her characters with depth, wisdom and poetry, while others are as basic and ordinary as people often are. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, the character at the center of Louise Penny’s beloved and successful series, is an avowed believer in the power of things seen and unseen.This is a riveting read of the past and present, murders, of psychopaths, demons, witches, of a fate that is cruel and kind, love and community.