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The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series.
Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he clearly knows who is on the other end. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday…
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Reviewer: Frank Camm
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I couldn’t put it down!
Review: I couldn’t put it down! It starts slowly–too slowly, but I gather the author was bringing new readers up to speed on the characters and locations she has relied on for 20 novels. I’m a new reader and I needed this intro. But it was slow. As the story takes off, though, the reader gets repeatedly kicked with surprises and new inputs that Inspector Gamache and his team have to respond to.The book gives close attention to the importance of assembling hypotheses to accommodate each new shock, testing each hypothesis, steadily building a plausible narrative by making guesses to fill in missing pieces, and then searching for data to validate the guesses. It feels surprisingly like what I do for a living as a public policy analyst ;-), But nobody dies in my line of work–at least nobody I know.People die in the book as action ensues, but the central thread in the story is always the narrative being built and the continuing need to test it. The real drama in the story arises from the mistakes that Gamache et al. make along the way and how easy it is to let your own priors mislead you. Irony or a central theme? I’ll take it as a theme–the book closes by suggesting that the team missed something big in this book. Stay tuned for The Black Wolf! Amazon delivered it to me yesterday. When will I sleep?!Meanwhile, everything in the book occurs in the context of a quirky group of family and neighbors that inevitably gets entangled in the plot. The central thread puts Gamache’s relationships with this community at risk. He must make choices about when to prioritize his intimate community, when to prioritize his employer, the government of Quebec, and when to prioritize some more abstract, distant set of values. Another theme a reader will see coming back repeatedly to kick her/him in the ribs.
Reviewer: Grant E. Beggs
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Worth the wait… and 2025 can’t come soon enough
Review: Louise Penny’s latest offering, *The Grey Wolf*, reads like a delightful puzzle that would intrigue even the most discerning sleuth. Set in the quaint village of Three Pines, it draws readers into a world where charm and menace intertwine, reminiscent of the best in classic mysteries.At the heart of this tale lies a chilling murder, the intricacies of which unfold with a deftness that would make Hercule Poirot himself nod in approval. Penny excels at crafting a narrative rich with red herrings and unexpected revelations, maintaining an atmosphere of suspense that grips from the very first page. Her characters, each painted with a fine brush, exhibit a depth that invites both suspicion and empathy, embodying the myriad complexities of human nature.As the story unfolds, the reader is treated to the sharp wit and keen observations that are hallmarks of the genre. Penny’s prose flows with an elegance that evokes the best of Golden Age crime fiction, combining intrigue with an insightful exploration of morality and human connection. The dialogue crackles with a subtle humor that enlivens the dark undercurrents of the plot.In The Grey Wolf, Penny invites us to contemplate not only the motives behind a heinous crime but also the profound bonds that unite the inhabitants of this seemingly idyllic village. It is a tale that lingers in the mind, a testament to Penny’s status as a master storyteller in the tradition of Agatha Christie. Readers will find themselves eagerly awaiting the next twist in this captivating series.
Reviewer: Mtlnative
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Conspiracy novel for our time
Review: I was a bit perturbed when a review of this latest Penny book said that it ended on a cliffhanger. I don’t like cliffhangers. I’m someone who often won’t start a mystery series on TV unless all of the episodes are already up. And then I will binge watch. I haven’t always been like this although I’ve never been good at waiting. When I was growing up, though, that’s what you had to do, wait until the next installment. I’ve been spoiled.Anyway. I read The Grey Wolf and the cliffhanger isn’t as frustrating as I was worried it was going to be midway through. Enough is solved in the book to make it satisfactory even if I don’t read the next Louise Penny. Which I will as long as things are still in one piece in this world in a year.The plot in this book is searingly close to the bone for many of us who were on the losing side of the US election this year. Gamache stumbles across a plot, at the very highest (Canadian) government level, to kill thousands of people in Montreal. In order to foment unrest, to pave the way for authoritarian takeover of the government. Who is involved, who can he trust? When will the terrorists strike and where? This is a theme that Penny has often used in her books—she doesn’t have a very high opinion of politicians and who can blame her—but although I’ve read all of her other books, her plotting always seems fresh. She intersperses moments of high tension with our unique Canadian brand of twisted humor, strange characters.She also brings back a theme from a previous novel about monasteries and monks. Gamache returns to a monastery he visited in a previous Penny novel, The Beautiful Mystery, and he and Beauvoir discuss things about their relationship that, if you haven’t read that book and the one that follows, you won’t understand. But that’s true of all of the Penny books. You can read a Penny book without reading the others but you won’t really understand how and why the characters are the way they are. What I’ve found in discussing her with friends and book club people, you either like her or you don’t.I like her although I agree that she often goes on and on in describing things in minute detail. It gets wearing. And her twists also sometimes get tiring. Funny enough though, even though this book is 421 pages, I didn’t find it too long. Maybe that’s because I alternated between listening to it and reading it. And, because I come from Quebec, I loved the narrator, who is a Quebec actor by the name of Jean Brassard. He is her first Francophone narrator and, well, to me listening to him was like coming home. Really enjoyed it.
Reviewer: Rosie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another addictive series!
Review: Louise Penny is one of the best writers in the world. The characters connect with the reader in such a way that they stay in the reader’s mind for some time. Armand Gamache is the most sympathetic character of all but is the strongest character of all
Reviewer: MPast
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Another great one
Review: Huge Louise Penny fan. Have ALL the Gamache books & enjoyed this one very much. I love watching the characters grow & emerge & her descriptions of Three Pines makes me want to search for this wonderous yet murderous place.
Reviewer: Amazon-klant
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: What kept me reading thisbook was not the main crime story – it was too complicated and utterly unconvincing – but the many close, mild and at the same time rich observations of human behaviour. Those observations have been a characteristic of all her books, but until now they primarily functioned as a fortifying enrichment of the main story, which kept the reader close to its course. In this book that was hardly the case any more, whereas at the same time the story itself was far too ambitious in scope, too complicated and at various points very unconvincing. The end suggests there might be a sequel, but I doubt whether I will read it.
Reviewer: Andrew watson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Have read all Louise Penny books – great characters and plots, with Armand Gamache along with his family, colleagues and friends in the Three Pines village, near Quebec and Montreal, keeping interest from beginning to end.
Reviewer: Cliente Kindle
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: sempre piacevole da leggere ma il plot già molto complesso si svolge in modo caotico e con qualche salto illogico…. resta comunque una ottima scrittrice!
Reviewer: Cliente Amazon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Otimo policial, como todos da Louise Penny
Reviewer: Ricarda Reker-Nass
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Louise Penny hat ein ganzes Universum geschaffen, die Romane werden von Band zu Band spannender
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