My next book in Louise Penny's Gamache series was A Trick of the Light. Gamache's friends, the artist couple, Clara and Peter play prominent roles in the story. Clara is finally having her art show and Peter is jealous.
Thomas Aquinas defines love as willing the good of the other. Peter is torn. He wants Clara to be recognized as the accomplished artist, that she is, yet he is jealous. He can't help himself. It wears on their marriage and the book ends with their separation.
But that isn't the story. Clara's childhood friend, Lillian, is murdered in her garden. They had grown apart because Lillian's personality grew into a vicious bitch. She destroyed two artists' careers, in her job as a reviewer. Lillian became an alcoholic. She tried to overcome her addiction and joined AA.
Gamache finds that the entire art world consists of backbiting, competitive, mean-spirited, jealous, artists. One of the artists that Lillian destroyed killed her. Finding the exact one, is the story. And it's a good one.
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