My first Louise Penny book. I think I liked it. I had a rough start where she introduced about fifteen characters in a few pages and I was scrambling to figure out who they hell all these new people were.

I did like Gamache and Beauvoir. I might read another. We’ll see.

Lines that I loved.

“Violent death demanded Earl Grey.”

“They were held together with hubris, a short-term binder at best since many of them had long ago been torn down or donated to McGill University, which needed another Victorian monstrosity like it needed the Ebola virus.”

“Clothes, hairstyle, friends. Yes. It starts there. Life is choice. All day, everyday. Who we talk to, where we sit, what we say, how we say it. And our lives become defined by our choices. It's as simple and as complex as that. And as powerful.”