Alone with a Book. A Book About Murder...

Mike got home from work at around 12:30am last night (or this morning?). Lame.

Since Mike was gone I decided to read. Naturally, I chose to finish reading a murder mystery. Good idea, Ky--read a murder mystery when you are alone and the heater keeps kicking on and making the house creak and pop. Brilliant.

Despite totally freaking myself out, I'm glad I finished the book! Definitely a good one. It was The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny. The latest of the "Three Pines Mystery" series. I have yet to read the first book of the series, but I'll get to it.

Like I said, this was a murder mystery. You should know by now that I have a semi-eclectic taste in books. For instance, I also recently read Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality. And that's exactly what it was about. And now I want a seahorse.

I'll probably never read a western, though. Don't hold your breath.

Back to the murder mystery review. In short, the book was great. The main character of this series is Chief Inspector Armand Gamache--he makes me feel like I need more patience in my life. It is set in Quebec so there are plenty of French words chucked around. I thought there was more humor here than in the second novel, A Fatal Grace. I like humor. You should like humor, too. If you don't, I recommend a Big Think.

Louise Penny's mysteries have a very Agatha Christie/traditional mystery feel about them. In fact, A Fatal Grace won the Agatha award for Best Novel.

I give this book 4 stars. Read it.