Review: A BETTER MAN, Louise Penny

• Format: Kindle (Amazon)
• File Size: 1021 KB
• Print Length: 447 pages
• ISBN: 1250066212
• Publisher: Sphere (August 27, 2019)
• Publication Date: August 27, 2019
• Sold by: Hachette Book Group
• Language: English
• ASIN: B07PCRM191
• Inspector Gamache #15

Synopsis  (Amazon)

The air is unbearably tense as Armand Gamache returns to the Sûreté du Québec for his first day of work since being demoted from its command to head of homicide.

Amid blistering personal social media attacks, Gamache sets out on his first assignment. He has been tasked with finding a missing woman, but while he leads the search for Vivienne Godin, Three Pines itself is threatened when the river breaks its banks, and a province-wide emergency is declared.

As the waters rise, a body is discovered - and the victim's distraught father contemplates a murder of his own. Gamache is a father himself, and is haunted by a question . . . what would he do, if his child's killer might walk free?

My take

I am a long time reader of the Armand Gamache series and once again Louise Penny has come up with an engrossing read.

It is a multi-stranded plot as you can see from the synopsis above. Gamache should be retired, in fact many believe he should be dismissed, perhaps even be in gaol, but he is returning to the Quebec Surete, not as the commander but to the head of homicide.

The story brings old comrades together and they work together on what will be Jean Guy Beauvoir's last case.

I loved it.

My rating: 4.9

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