Louise Penny amazes me. In her mystery novel, Glass Houses, she has the story begin with a person in a grim reaper costume, standing in the village's Common. The cobrador is a figure that will stare at the guilty. He just stands and stands, for days. He doesn't speak, even when spoken to--or even threatened. Finally, he shows up dead, in the basement of the church.
Who the cobrador is, is a real surprise, so I won't spoil it. Who killed him will gradually enfold as the story continues. It's also interesting how Louise Penny has Inspector Gamache's problems keep getting more and more intricate. The politics are so intertwined in a web of deceit, I don't know how Gamache can stand it. But it doesn't seem to faze him. Thank goodness his personal life is self nourishing. It sustains him.
I'd like to know how the people who live in Three Pines can afford to eat at the Bistro, every single day. That's where the reader can see who and what are committing crimes. It's where the behind the crimes are figured out.
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