![]() ![]() ![]() Even funnier is her merciless view of a highly dysfunctional WASP family, mirrored in the astonishment of the down-to-earth francophone detectives. In The Murder Stone, Penny does a witty takeoff on the English country house party mystery, à la Gosford Park, profiting from the opportunity to take an upstairs/downstairs view of guests and staff. This year they find that all the other guests are from one family, originally members of the formerly all-powerful anglo business establishment of Montreal. ![]() Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache stay here every year on their wedding anniversary. ![]() Nowadays it is run as a luxurious inn, the Manoir Bellechasse. We are still in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, where we find an enormous copper-roofed building made of huge rustic logs and originally used as a hunting lodge by the early robber barons of Quebec. She has moved us out of the village of Three Pines, over a few mountains and valleys, and down onto the forested shores of Lake Massawippi. Hodder Headline $24.95 paper 300pp 978-0-75Louise Penny has made an inspired choice of locale for her fourth Chief Inspector Gamache mystery. ![]()
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