This was an hard book to read. In keeping with the title, cruelty was on display in ways large and small. All murder mysteries contain the cruelty of murder, but this one also had the cruelties that we committ on the people we love most and the self-inflicted damage we do to ourselves. I almost quit this book. I posted in the Facebook group about the anxiety I was feeling about Gamache being set up, but it was a moment between two other characters that […]
Oops
I forgot to review this book when I read it last month, so here’s hoping I can remember it well enough to write a review. It’s #6 in the Inspector Gamache series, a mystery series set in Quebec that I cannot recommend highly enough for those of you who like mysteries–but unfortunately Bury Your Dead was not my favorite entry in the series. Inspector Gamache is on holiday in Quebec City to recover from a case that ended badly. He’s staying with a friend, but […]
A Gamache Cannonball
It turns out that this year’s Cannonball book is an Inspector Gamache book, and that seems oddly fitting. I have chosen to spread out the Inspector Armand Gamache books instead of mainlining them. I read them in the seasons they are set, and it always proves to be something to look forward to. Following the disappointment of In Praise of Hatred I needed a comfort read, and Gamache is that for me. Luckily enough, autumn in northern Quebec is now, so we were all set. […]
We need to talk about Peter
Half Cannonball, and a third of the way through the Inspector Gamache books! Like all the other Inspector Gamache books, this one is great. If you’re not familiar, these books take place in Quebec (mostly in a small town called Three Pines, but this one takes place at a remote hotel not too far away), and star Inspector Armand Gamache, a homicide detective and one of the best people in literature. By “best” I don’t mean best written (although he is pretty well written), but […]