A Great Reckoning
- Louise Penny
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Of the several job offers he had, Gamache has accepted to join as the head of the Surete training academy, with the purpose of rooting out the corruption and cruelty in the force at its base. However, the dynamics of power being complex (and this being a murder mystery) , soon enough a senior officer is murdered. Due to his ingrained quality of honesty and commitment to protect people he is responsible for, Gamache gets more deeply involved than he might have expected.
This is a taut mystery-thriller, even though a little too disturbing for my taste – I find explicit and implicit descriptions of gore and sadism unsettling. While I liked the fast-paced mystery despite my aversion to violence, I am disconcerted by the implausibility in the fundamental structure of the plot, as was also the case in some of the previous books.*
For all the buildup it was given, I found the auxiliary story line concerning the map not quite relevant to the central plot, even though it had its own elements of interest. A parallel story line with little connection and no relevance to the main mystery is also becoming a recurring feature in the novels.
The fractured sentences are not so frequent, or I have become used to them and do not notice them as much as in some of the previous books.
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* SPOILER ALERT:
How does it happen that in a game of Russian Roulette there is no death over the course of years?
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