Louise Penny Boxed Set (1-3): Still Life, A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel)
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Product details
- Series: Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
- Paperback: 960 pages
- Publisher: Minotaur Books; Box edition (August 26, 2014)
- Language: English
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2017
Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
I love this series, having started in the middle several years ago. At the risk of contradicting some earlier reviews of mine, I now feel like readers would be best advised to read this series in sequence. The separate stories do stand alone, but there is a recurring cast of characters in the village of Three Pines and a back story involving the lead character Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, that would likely be confusing to a reader jumping from place to place. This set consists of the first three in the series.
1.) Still Life - very well done,although I found one character Agent Yvette Nicole, hard to believe. She is a rookie, but still, she is 25, not 15. Since character development is such a strength of Penny's I was disappointed in this. With later books we learned more about her, and it does serve as a partial explanation, but that just makes the point of my opening paragraph.
2.) Fatal Grace - I liked this the least of the three in this set, although Penny is always a cut above other murder mysteries. The idyllic Three Pines setting worked better in the first one where a beloved school teacher died, than here where the murder provoked a "good riddance" reaction.
Also, the manner in which the murder was committed, a low voltage electrocution strikes me as impossible.
3.) Cruelest Month - in this one the back story of Gamache's prior investigation of corrupt police practices overwhelms the basic story. Also, the first 50-60 pages of this, before Gamache arrives had me ready to gag on too much sweetness with the Three Pines characters. Once Gamache arrives on the scene, however, the characters became adults.
Finally the book contained a phrase that I honestly think should have been used for the title. The Near Enemy - refers to the dual nature of human emotion, that for example pity is the near enemy of compassion, the bad side that ruins the good intention. The Near Enemy would have been a better title for Penny's third book, but she didn't take it, so I am stealing it for my review.
1.) Still Life - very well done,although I found one character Agent Yvette Nicole, hard to believe. She is a rookie, but still, she is 25, not 15. Since character development is such a strength of Penny's I was disappointed in this. With later books we learned more about her, and it does serve as a partial explanation, but that just makes the point of my opening paragraph.
2.) Fatal Grace - I liked this the least of the three in this set, although Penny is always a cut above other murder mysteries. The idyllic Three Pines setting worked better in the first one where a beloved school teacher died, than here where the murder provoked a "good riddance" reaction.
Also, the manner in which the murder was committed, a low voltage electrocution strikes me as impossible.
3.) Cruelest Month - in this one the back story of Gamache's prior investigation of corrupt police practices overwhelms the basic story. Also, the first 50-60 pages of this, before Gamache arrives had me ready to gag on too much sweetness with the Three Pines characters. Once Gamache arrives on the scene, however, the characters became adults.
Finally the book contained a phrase that I honestly think should have been used for the title. The Near Enemy - refers to the dual nature of human emotion, that for example pity is the near enemy of compassion, the bad side that ruins the good intention. The Near Enemy would have been a better title for Penny's third book, but she didn't take it, so I am stealing it for my review.
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