As far as I can recall this is my first ever Louise Penny book I read. I found it to be a fantastic read for the most part. I like that the setting is in Quebec, Canada.
Chief Inspector Gamache and his wife Reine-Marie are a very endearing couple, yet are no-nonsense people. Other characters stand out for their own respective, ahem, specialness and this book could be read as a stand alone.
However, a friend explained to me that this mystery murder novel follows about a four book series line up, that if read in sequence, would help give greater background of its characters and incidents. I'll take her word for it.
Mr. Finny and his sums counting was a good surprize for me and in the end I really liked him because of it. Yet even though A Rule Against Murder is such a great and clean story overall, I was disappointed with the bad language that marred some of its pages and I wished that the author didn't feel it necessary to include such words. Therefore, I choose to only give a 4-Star rating.
~ ERC August 2024 ~
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