A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Gamache, 4)

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As Hercule Poirot encoutered in Agatha Christie’s THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES or Jane Marple faced in AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL, the list of possible murderers in Louise Penny’s THE MURDER STONE is closed and short. If stern fathers were all that took to create the type of people here, there would be a morrow in pretty much half the world. If Gamache senior had run away to another country or used some other means of avoiding serving in the war, then I’d be more prepared to accept the judgement of cowardice.

And even Bert doesn’t step up and contradict his wife in any way – he could be standing up for the children a lot more than he does, rather than quietly telling the story to Gamache. Have family minutes from the recent big Slide Rock fire area around Sedona who were desperate for Mom Nature to dump some of that wet stuff up there in the mountains. The Gamaches are sharing the inn with the wealthy and toxic Finney family, who have their annual family reunion at Manoir Bellechasse.Upon arrival at Manoir Bellechasse, the Gamaches learn that they will not have the solitude to which they are accustomed, as a family reunion brings much excitement and fills the rest of the rooms.

But thinking of him in connection with Pierre during THIS rereading and discussion was the first time I actually considered that he had a “howl inside” that often surprised him and that he had to “wrestle with” his inner demons.

I mean, even if Pierre said, hey, stand right here and she did it, he had to move to the other side of the statue and shove it. In fact, most of the time, if the handicap predated the birth of any and all of the children, most handicapped persons would see the child as a blessing.