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A Rule Against Murder: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (2008)

by Louise Penny

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Series: Chief Inspector Armand Gamache (4)

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This was my first Louise Penny. I bought it five years ago and have only just got down to reading it through (first time I opened it I wasn't in the mood, I guess). I will definitely buy another one soon. I particularly enjoyed this one because of the locale in which it is set and and the microculture which is explored. ( )
  pickupf | May 21, 2013 |
Catching up on titles in this series I missed along the way and awaiting the next installment in August.
This one is set at a resort in Quebec where Gamache and his wife are celebrating their anniversary. Of course there is a murder. Close enough to Three Pines to include a visit and 2 of the characters from the village.
A nice, comfortable read. ( )
  librarian1204 | Apr 26, 2013 |
This is the fourth, and best so far, mystery about a small Quebec community called Three Pines, which has had far more than its fair share of homicide in the last few years. The writing is lyrical but not precious, the mystery (and the "how" done it in particular) is a great puzzler, and the chief detective is so fully realized that his character and its complexities are equally as fascinating as the crimes. In each book, the author also helps us rediscover bits and pieces of poetry that reveal something of Mr. Gamache as well as advancing the plot.

The Three Pines books are not in any way self-consciously "literary." Yet each imbues the crime investigation with questions about the nature and limits of family bonds, loyalty, and lost opportunities. In this most recent novel, the answers to these questions and the central mystery unfold in an arc that is poignant and deeply moving. ( )
  diva0301 | Apr 24, 2013 |
Another good book by Penny, who moved the location just down the road from Three Pines. The character development was great again.
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  Cubbyfan99 | Apr 3, 2013 |
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Louise Penny applies her magic touch to A RULE AGAINST MURDER, giving the village mystery an elegance and depth not often seen in this traditional genre.
 

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Louise Pennyprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Chabalier, ClaireTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Chabalier, LouiseTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Nagano, KiyomiTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Stumpf, AndreaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Werbeck, GabrieleTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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For my parents, in love and memory
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At the beginning of summer the guests descended on the isolated lodge by the lake, summoned to the Manoir Bellechasse by identical vellum invitations, addressed in the familiar spider scrawl as though written in cobwebs.
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'The Murder Stone' is the title for the Canadian and British publications of the book which is published in the United States as 'A Rule Against Murder'.
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From Louise Penny's web site:

THE MURDER STONE is the fourth Chief Inspector Gamache mystery, and the last in the seasonal cycle that began with STILL LIFE.

THE MURDER STONE is set over the course of one summer week at the Manoir Bellechasse, a remote luxury inn on the shores of Lac Massawippi, in Quebec. It's to this inn that Armand Gamache has brought Reine Marie to celebrate a wedding anniversary. But while they're surrounded by nature, it soon becomes clear there's something deeply unnatural there with them. Perhaps it's the Finney family. Cultured, gracious, the more they smile the more vicious they become. Perhaps its one of the young workers at the remote Manoir, suffering cabin fever so far from civilization.

Guests go to the elegant old inn to escape the past. But it comes looking for them. And as the stifling heat closes in, as the humidity rises, as a terrible summer storm approaches and crashes into the old log lodge, it finds them. A body is discovered. It's up to Chief Inspector Gamache and his team to figure out how the victim could have been murdered, and who among them did it.

The chase takes him to the village of Three Pines, into the dark corners of his own past, and finally to a harrowing climax.

'The mind is its own place,' Gamache quotes. 'And in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.'

At the lovely Manoir Bellechasse he finds both.

I did want to mention that this book will be published January in the United States, but under a different title. They were inspired by an exchange between two of the characters, and have chosen the title, A RULE AGAINST MURDER.
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When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache makes a wedding anniversary trip to luxurious Menoir Bellechasse, he finds his plans interrupted by his fellow guests as well as old secrets that serve as a prelude to murder.

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