If her latest books dealt with drugs in the city, this one focuses on domestic violence.

Once again, she managed to deliver a unique book, with an original plot. Climate change is threatening it in this fifteenth volume in the series. Will their world even survive? Three Pines, Québec, is definitely not a sheltered place. How will they all emerge from the present crisis? As bitter people? Better people? Just like Gamache, she has to face cruel reactions to her work on social media. But can you remain neutral and detached when a father realizes his pregnant daughter is found dead? And when your dearest one, your daughter, or your wife, is herself pregnant?Īnother character finds herself at a crossroads. Plus, the murder they are investigating rings too close to their own lives, challenging both to deal with it without being emotionally involved. With all they have been through together, this could become an explosive situation.

He is now preparing to leave with his young family and settle in Paris.īefore that, he has to solve one last case, this time in tandem with his father-in-law, Armand Gamache, who is preparing to get back to his former position as the head of Sûreté. Once more.Īfter experiencing difficult developments in her personal life, Louise Penny offers her readers a new book full of transitions: Jean-Guy Beauvoir has had enough of the pain received and inflicted in his job in the Sûreté de Québec. You will probably end up with predictable plots. Take the same backwater in Québec, the same core of main characters, and write fifteen crime stories with that. A Better Man by Louise Penny is the latest addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series starring Armand Gamache.

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