Wednesday, August 30, 2017

A Rule Against Murder

by Louise Penny
Hennepin County Library audiobook 9 CDs
read by Ralph Cosham
genre: murder mystery / warning: Spoiler at the end of the post!

My random car notes:
Pierre Paternode (Maitre D')
Elliot (bratty young waiter)
Manoir (?)
The Finneys - yuk!
  • Thomas - mean, nasty 
  • Julia Martin
  • Spot (Peter) Morrow!
  • Marianna (Magilla gorilla) and daughter Bean
Auberge - (it's another word for "inn" . . . ) but I wasn't sure and had to look it up
sugar / ants - that's significant!
Honore' - significance?
nasty family!

My suspect list:
1. Thomas
2. Veronique
3. Elliott
4. Bean
5. Bert Finney? Why?

poetry, patience, . . . positive things Honore' gave his son. Why does Armand have such an issue with Daniel choosing this name for a baby boy?

From the Gamache website: "It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But they’re not alone. The Finney family—rich, cultured, and respectable—has also arrived for a celebration of their own. The beautiful Manoir Bellechasse might be surrounded by nature, but there is something unnatural looming. As the heat rises and the humidity closes in, some surprising guests turn up at the family reunion, and a terrible summer storm leaves behind a dead body. It is up to Chief Inspector Gamache to unearth secrets long buried and hatreds hidden behind polite smiles."

Spoiler!!!!
I didn't even have Pierre as one of my suspects! Initially, I circled Elliott's name. "He's not on the grounds" from Gamache . . .  Penny loves to mess with her readers' expectations.

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