A Better Man Pdf is a Detective Crime Fiction Mystery Thriller novel written by Louise Penny. Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.
A Better Man Book Summary
It’s Gamache’s first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Floodwaters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil, a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter.
As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father.
Increasingly hounded by the question, how would you feel…, he resumes the search.
As the rivers rise, and the social media onslaught against Gamache becomes crueler, a body is discovered. And in the tumult, mistakes are made.
In the next novel in this “constantly surprising series that deepens and darkens as it evolves” (The New York Times Book Review), Gamache must face a horrific possibility, and a burning question.What would you do if your child’s killer walked free?
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About Louise Penny Author Of A Better Man Pdf Book
Louise Penny Author Of A Better Man Pdf is the author of the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling series of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (seven times), and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. In 2017, she received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture. Louise lives in a small village south of Montréal.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Flawed but Brilliant Read
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 26, 2022
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I love Louise Penny. I love the characters she’s created in Armand Gamache, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, Clara, Ruth, and the citizens of Three Pines. I love the town of Three Pines. I love the way her novels weave together multiple storylines, and deal with deeper issues than merely “whodunnit.”
Louise Penny is a master of her craft. And A Better Man is another engrossing read—layered, nuanced, gripping. And yet, there are certain things that stick in my craw. Like the way art, in Penny’s Gamache/Three Pines universe is either “genius” or “crap.” And the meaning of an individual work of art is set in stone, apparently not up for debate or interpretation.
A single white dot in the eye of a portrait contains meaning, apparently, that anyone will/should/could interpret in precisely the same way, in Penny’s universe.
While an interesting idea for a story, it is a hogwash idea in reality, where, of course, art/beauty/meaning all reside in the eye of the beholder.
Yet so much of Penny’s plot points often rely on this notion: that art/quality/beauty/meaning are *objective*, rather than subjective. And it just irks me.
I also had to question certain choices that the police officer characters made—inviting victims into their homes, that kind of thing. Would that really be allowed? I don’t know enough about protocol of the Canadian police, but I’m skeptical.
Other than these issues, which required some rather intense suspension of disbelief, I was, as usual, drawn into the story, and Penny’s masterful writing. I could not put the book down and raced through it in a couple of days.
As long as I go into a Louise Penny book with the understanding that this is fiction, and likely not adhering to reality except in the fact that the laws of physics apply, I can sit back and truly enjoy her books. I’m looking forward to the next fantasy mystery!
5.0 out of 5 stars A very good crime mystery
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 9, 2022
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Louise Penny is a fine, accomplished writer. I have read all but two of the Inspector Gamache series for which she has received so many accolades. She has written several books that I consider outstanding, including this one, A Better Man. She has also written some awful ones, for example, The Long Way Home. So, how can an award-winning professional author write outstanding books as well as awful books? Two weaknesses: story line and central characters. The story line of A Better Man, however, is terrific — an obvious murderer identified early on and then pursued with vigor; the police stripped of important evidence by a nutty court ruling and then going over and over the evidence until they finally face the small mismatches of their assumptions with the evidence. Great story line. As to central characters, regrettably the most problematic is the feature character of the series, Armand Gamache. He is a towering figure but a strangely non-masculine or even feminine man. I’m sure he never farts or spits. He doesn’t hunt or fish, even though he lives in a small Quebec village surrounded by woods and rivers. He dislikes guns and we never hear of him re-qualifying on the shooting range. What kind of policeman is this? In A Better Man, he is satisfyingly curious and persevering in the face of a demotion and the doubts of some members of his team. He spots the character flaws of others, but not his own — a very realistic feature of the man. The only weakness of this wonderful story of a woman murdered at midnight on a rainy spring night is the obvious evidence that gets overlooked. The villain of the story is a ceramics artist who appears to have murdered his wife. Ms. Penny sells us on this suspect’s wickedness immediately, and we can hardly wait for him to be brought to justice. It takes several hundred pages, but justice wins out and we are left content. A great read.
A Better Man pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Minotaur Books; 1st edition (August 27, 2019)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 448 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1250066212
- ISBN-13 : 978-1250066213
- Item Weight : 1.45 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.62 x 1.43 x 9.58 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #106,065 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #883 in International Mystery & Crime (Books)
- #1,184 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books)
- #3,806 in Cozy Mysteries (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.7 out of 5 stars 12,566 ratings
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