Currently suspended from his Sûreté post during the investigation into the controversial events of Glass Houses (2017), Gamache must remember he's here on unofficial business. But is there danger waiting beyond the door? It's what Gamache has been trained to anticipate. Curiosity is what brings him here after receiving a vague invitation in the mail. Do better, famous author.The Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec finds himself in a unique position: He's tangled up in the life of a recently deceased woman, and it doesn't involve her murder.Īs the first snowflakes of a major storm start to fall, Chief Superintendent Gamache is standing in front of a crooked house in the middle of the woods, unsure of whom he will find inside. Worth noting, Penny uses a slur for transgendered people (and women in particular) here many times, and not just from characters who are supposed to be coded as bad, but from good characters as well. But it turns out she could, and he seems to have comforted her, as the series is still going strong three books later. As she notes in her afterword, Gamache as a character was so tied up with his inspiration, Penny’s recently passed away husband Michael, she didn’t think she could write about him after the loss.
I find it interesting that this is a book Penny didn’t intend to write. SPOILERS That it was all a ploy and turned out to be a plan by Gamache and Amelia to find the drugs didn’t make it better END SPOILERS. It was painful to see Gamache act so out of character.
It was painful to see Amelia relapse and lose all her hard work of the past two years. While I was all about the inheritance and will drama, and getting to Beauvoir take charge in an investigation for once, the second plot just dind’t work for me.
The metaphors creaked and groaned, and the obvious tie-ins to the title were too much for me. The second plot was much weaker.Īlso weaker was Penny’s writing here. to find the drugs that were released into the wild last book before they begin to kill. This also ties in to the plot for Gamache and co. Gamache expels her himself, putting her back on the streets. The B-plot of the book follows Cadet Amelia Choquet after she is expelled from the academy for being in possession of and possibly trafficking in narcotics. The woman, who called herself the Baroness, had a strange and interesting past, and as often happens in these books, a murder occurs. On the one hand, I really liked the main conceit of the plot, that this old woman makes Gamache, Myrna, and a strange young man named Benedict the liquidators of her will, despite that none of them knew her.
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