![]() ![]() Investigation soon reveals that she was the last of the Ouellet Quints, a fictional version of the Dionne Quintuplets, who had made headlines around the world in the 1930s. After Constance pays a surprise visit to Myrna and suggests that she will soon return to reveal a secret that she had kept hidden even during her therapy, she is murdered in her home in Montreal. ![]() The story within the bookthe murder du jour, so to speakinvolves Constance, an elderly former patient of Myrna, the bookstore owner in Three Pines, who used to be a psychotherapist before retiring to that beautiful, Brigadoon-like village. Both are fascinating, but the second, involving Gamache himself on both a personal and a career level, definitely dwarfs the first. The book really has two stories, one completely covered within the book and the other a continuation and completion of an arc begun in the previous volume. Louise Penny always deals in intense and complex emotions, but they have rarely been more so than in this volume of her popular Inspector Gamache series. ![]()
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