The village of Three Pines seems to shelter or attract an outsized amount of jealousy, loneliness, and perfidy, in addition to heaps of bonhomie, creativity, and good humor. It's more the characters, and the setting, and the relationships. The plot itself isn't why I enjoy reading Louise Penny. The woman seems to have died of fright-and of poisoning by ephedra, a diet drug. The main story involves a murder in a "haunted" house (that also plays a role in the earlier books), of a woman fairly new to the community but well loved (perhaps too well). That scandal comes back to haunt the Chief Inspector in this volume (and apparently is not put completely to bed by the end, though it is soothed). We'd also been introduced, as I recall somewhat in passing, to a scandal that rocked the Sûreté, the police force of the province, some time before in which Gamache was a key player. By now we've come to know some of the regulars, both in Gamache's small group of homicide investigators and among the populace of the idyllic village of Three Pines, Québec. This is the third of Louise Penny's thirteen books featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache (my reports on the first two can be found here and here).
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