In the last book, it left Superindent Armand Gamache fired from his job but they offered instead his old job back as Chief Inspector of Homicide and got pissed off at him when he took it after Jean-Guy Beauvoir, who was heading up homicide, decided to leave for Paris to take a job outside the police force. Isabelle Lacoste still hasn't decided where she wants to work and at the beginning of this book, she is doing interviews to determine where she will land since as a hero she can write her own check.
As a great flood is about to hit Quebec Lysette Cloutier an agent Gamache took from accounting and placed in homicide in order to help hunt down murderers financially has come to both Jean-Guy and Armand who are both running the homicide department until Jean-Guy leaves. Technically Jean-Guy is in charge, though. She comes to them for help in finding a friend's daughter who has gone missing. She is involved in an abusive relationship and she has decided to leave her husband and go to her father but she never showed up to her father's house.
It's obvious that her husband killed her especially when they find the body. But did he really kill her? Or was it his girlfriend or her boyfriend or someone else altogether? This will be Jean-Guy's last case which is sad. On top of all this, someone is slamming Gamache on Twitter questioning his fitness to be on the force and releases a bad video of him on there making it appear that he kills African American kids. Also, Claire is getting hit with negative reviews from her miniatures that she put on a display that is causing people to rethink her as an artist. This was an amazing book in that it kept you guessing all the way to the end. It's sad to think this will be the last time Lacoste, Beauvoir, and Gamache will work together. This was an excellent book to go out on. I give it five out of five stars.
Quotes
It did not seem to Isabelle Lacoste a great addition to
the Surete moto. Service, integrity, justice, and occasionally stupidity.
-Louise Penny (A Better Man p 105)
I’m well in body, but considerably rumpled in spirit.
-L. M. Montgomery (Anne Of Green Gables)
Alcohol stole dignity and friends and family and livelihoods
before finally taking the life. Alcohol
was a thief. And often a murderer.
-Louise Penny (A Better Man p 170)
Is it true? Is it kind? Does it need to be said?
-Louise Penny (A Better Man p 184)
The Chief would patiently explain that being still and
doing nothing were two different things.
-Louise Penny (A Better Man p 226)
Seemed courtesy beat good sense. Almost to death.
-Louise Penny (A Better Man p 234)
It wasn’t years but choices that separated these two
women.
-Louise Penny (A Better Man p 259)
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