![]() ![]() ![]() The little village of Three Pines watches as its meandering Bella Bella River becomes a raging torrent and threatens to wash the village away. It is April, "the cruelest month", and Quebec is experiencing catastrophic floods such as it has not seen before. ![]() Moreover, it is not just the human on human violence, both physical and psychological, that play an important role in this plot the violence of Nature is the backdrop of it all. And she examines the damage that the unbridled hate expressed through social media does to the fabric of society. In A Better Man, she explores as she has not before the deep physical and psychological damage that domestic violence does in long-term effects on the personalities of victims. Each new entry seems to break new ground and deal with the current state of the world. The bane of long series like this one is that their plots tend to become formulaic and predictable. Her multitude of fans, among whom I count myself, await them impatiently. She produces a new one, regular as clockwork, every summer. This is the fifteenth in Louise Penny's Three Pines Armand Gamache mystery series. ![]()
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