Thoughts 
by Louise Penny, 2006, 313 pages
Challenge: What’s in a Name: NFL Team: CHIEFS!
Genre/Theme: Mystery
Type/Source: Tradeback / unknown
What It’s About: This is a story about mothers and daughters. Nature and nurture, too, to some extent. If you fell for Chief Inspector Gamache in the first book (Still Life), this is more of that kindly intelligent sleuthing by conversation.
We meet the victim first and she is truly unlikeable. But does she deserve to die? Why did she move to Three Pines in the first place? What is she looking for in that dear town and how awful can she be to EVERYONE?! The murder is clever in its own right and unraveling the possibilities beyond the motive is part of the fun. If fun is what you call it? #sigh
Thoughts: I do not think this is standalone. In fact, I wish more time hadn’t passed between reading this and series #1 – which means that if I want to read #3, I best hurry!
Rating: Four slices of pie. I would have given it three stars because my recollection of the details in the first book escaped me and I don’t like loose threads. The extra slice of pie is gratitude for the lovely bits about lemon meringue pie. Kudos!
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I love this series. I read them all at once, like gorging on candy, and was sad when the series was over.
<strong>Thank you! I’ll request the next from the library.
Oh! What an interesting way to do the WIAN using Chiefs and a Chief Inspector! I’ve got to look again at my reads to see if I have something similar!
<strong>I almost used Lauren Groff’s story collection titled FLORIDA but that seemed to be stretching the attempt a wee bit. Unless the Jaguars were the Florida Jaguars but alas, they represent Jacksonville. Then I spied the Chief in this title and WA LA.