Book Review: Louise Penny’s A Trick of the Light
…what it takes to be a great author. To be willing to sabotage a sweet character’s triumph, a woman who “paints dear life”. To create a character so vicious and evil!
…what it takes to be a great author. To be willing to sabotage a sweet character’s triumph, a woman who “paints dear life”. To create a character so vicious and evil!
Fidelma and Brother Eadulf must discover who was behind the attempted assassination attempt of King Colgú. Was it their arch enemies? Evil secrets at an abbey?
Family secrets are revealed…and murdered with emus on the loose.
A murderous quest that spans 400 years threatens to ignite long-smouldering tensions between the English and the French. Complicating matters is Olivier’s recent conviction for murder.
A stranger is found murdered in the bistro in Three Pines, only…that’s not where he was killed and the trail to find his killer seems to lead to Olivier, raising too many questions.
Chief Inspector Gamache must unearth secrets long buried and hatreds hidden behind polite smiles when fa family reunion ends in murder.
Not even death by electrocution can make anyone like CC de Poitiers. It takes Chief Inspector Armand Gamache digging beneath the village’s surface to find secrets long buried.
In between shopping, wrapping, cooking, caroling, and decorating, Meg is busy detecting murder, arson, and who those holiday pranksters are.
A dastardly murder and the kidnapping of a prize chicken threaten to ruin Caerphilly’s state fair—fortunately, Meg Langslow is on the case.
Rome is divided between Cicero and Catilina in the consular elections, and Cicero pulls Gordianus the Finder out of retirement to find the dirt on Catilina. In this cloak-and-dagger political struggle, Gordianus wonders about the truth of Catilina until a headless corpse ominously appears on his farm.