A review by linda48
A Better Man, by Louise Penny
5.0
Couldn't put this book down. I'd be reading at 8:30 and look up to see it was 10:30. Crawl into bed and suddenly it was midnight. Just one more chapter - 12:45 am.
Louise Penny is certainly going over to the dark side with her most recent books. Here she delves into abuse, psychological and physical, women and children; the loss of a child; psychopaths and narcissists. Three main story arcs (major flooding in Quebec, Clara's art, and the search for a missing woman) bob and weave and intertwine among each other to form an intricate web of intrigue, mystery and crime, but all follow the theme of Melville's Moby Dick and the search for their individual "white whales."
Through it all, Gamache shows us that even the worst of people can have redeeming qualities and goodness exists in the world.
As always, I urge you to read the books in order - not difficult to do at all. In fact, I may be starting over from the first - just because. A word of warning: Her acknowledgements made me cry.
Louise Penny is certainly going over to the dark side with her most recent books. Here she delves into abuse, psychological and physical, women and children; the loss of a child; psychopaths and narcissists. Three main story arcs (major flooding in Quebec, Clara's art, and the search for a missing woman) bob and weave and intertwine among each other to form an intricate web of intrigue, mystery and crime, but all follow the theme of Melville's Moby Dick and the search for their individual "white whales."
Through it all, Gamache shows us that even the worst of people can have redeeming qualities and goodness exists in the world.
As always, I urge you to read the books in order - not difficult to do at all. In fact, I may be starting over from the first - just because. A word of warning: Her acknowledgements made me cry.