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I got to see Louise Penny. She was so funny. She was walking back and forth on the stage and her silk scarf kept slithering off her shoulder. Finally, after picking it up (one more time) she laughed and said something like, perhaps we hadn‘t expected to see Salome‘s Dance of the Seven Veils. She was great. 😊 👍

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I don‘t remember a barn in the story, but it sure looks like one or two on the cover!

After taking a 2 month break from the Gamache series bc of other audio holds coming in @ the library I really enjoyed this installment of the series. The ongoing mystery of who killed Vivian was very well done & while I ended up predicting the culprit I enjoyed the intrigue & suspense! I can‘t believe Jean Guy & Annie are going 2 France! I‘m eager 2 read the next book!! I want to finish the 4 remaining books before the 20th comes out later this yr

Licorice pipes are a candy frequently mentioned in the Inspector Gamache series. I‘d never heard of them before reading these books. I recently recommended the series to my dad and he‘s been loving them. The other day he surprised me with these strange candies. He‘d been curious to find out what they were like. So if you‘re wondering, this is what licorice pipes look like!

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Got Matt hooked on these books, and he's four ahead of me! 🤩 Quickest way to get this one was to buy it, and he's happily hygge-ing it all day with this one.

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This is the nineteenth mystery of the Armand Gamache series. As Gamache sits with his wife, Reine-Marie, in their back garden, the phone keeps ringing relentlessly. When he finally answers, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning. The Grey wolf, a missing coat, and intruder alarm, a note for gamache reading, "This might interest you."

The third audio narrator of the series is introduced with this installment. I liked the previous two, this one not so much because the voices aren‘t as distinct. The pronounced French accent meant distinguishing among the several French names was difficult to track, but that‘s no fault of the narrator.

This story sprawls across many locations and characters, and as a result there was too much explanation of connections rather than showing.

Light thumbs up. It‘s hard to go wrong with the friends of Three Pines, but this one was just okay.

#7 in the Gamache series and I loved it! The art talk especially but also how important hope is 🇨🇦