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| A Great Reckoning |
Over the last 20 years of reading contemporary crime fiction, I have found that no one does cozy like Louise Penny. And
A Great Reckoning, the twelfth in the series featuring Armand Gamache, is no exception. That's because her novels are best enjoyed for their meditative approach to murders than for introducing a mystery for the sake of it. Her doing the latter in
The Nature of the Beast caused it to come undone in what can only summed up as an epic misfire, but here she is bang on target, delivering a superb cartographic mystery that's also about rooting out corruption from the Sûreté, investigating the murder of a police academy professor and a cadet who may have had an unexplained past with the homicide chief. Complex, layered and narrated through the shrewd, compassionate eyes of Gamache,
A Great Reckoning is a beautiful read, but one that can be savoured more when read as a series.
P.S.: I read
A Great Reckoning last August, but it has taken me an year to pen my thoughts on the book, if only because Penny's next novel
Glass Houses is set for release come August 29!
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