
“A Better Man” has Gamache back as head of the homicide department (the job he had in the first book in the series). I cannot keep reading about her art anymore. Anytime Clara is elevated in the forefront in these books though I get totally lost. I would happily just read about Gamache and his cases with the villagers there as a chorus in the background. Though I gave this five stars, I honestly think this is a 4.5 star book (I rounded up) due to the ridiculous side plot with Clara and her art.

I think Penny is a bit repetitive at times, but not as badly as she has been in the past.

So this is a very good Louise Penny book following the Armand Gamache and another change in his professional and personal life. I gave “Kingdom of the Blind” three stars due to that whole opiod epidemic thing that still gives me hives when it is referred to in this book.
