The mystery in this book (the murder of the man searching for Champlain’s grave) is of secondary importance. The main point of this installment in Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series is to explain what happened "between books". Our beloved characters were involved in a bloody shootout that left several dead and wounded. Inspector Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir are recovering from wounds both physical and psychological. Also, Jean-Guy travels to Three Pines to further investigate the murder from "A Brutal Telling" for which Bistro owner Olivier was convicted. Great stuff for the ongoing story but the Champlain stuff was interesting only from an historical perspective.

posted Feb 1, 2013 at 12:49PM

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