by Louise Penny
This is the third book in the series about Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. The story is again set in the little town of Three Pines Quebec, with the "usual" cast of quirky characters.
In this story a woman dies while at a Seance, at a house in the village many consider evil or haunted. Her face has a look of sheer terror. Initially the "witch" who had reluctantly agreed to do the seance is suspected, especially when it turns out that she was a classmate of the murdered woman and did not disclose this.
In addition to this murder there is a side plot in which some of Gamache's colleagues appear to be plotting against him and using newspaper articles implying illegal things about Gamache and his family in an effort to discredit him.
When the news attacks on his family escalate Gamache meets with his superiors and resigns. But, then he goes back and solves the crime... so he didn't really resign, and he finds out that the person plotting against him is a man who was his best friend as a child and his supervisor. I am not really sure that I buy the reason why the supervisor turned against Gamache.
As always a great read but it was a bit heavy with the conspiracy against Gamache.
No comments:
Post a Comment