![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/fugue21/magnifier-left.png)
![The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector…](https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/01/3c/013c25369be097b597745414141433041414141_v5.jpg)
Klik op een omslag om naar Google Boeken te gaan.
Bezig met laden... The Beautiful Mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #8) (editie 2012)door Louise Penny
Informatie over het werkEen schitterend mysterie door Louise Penny
![]() ALA The Reading List (53) Top Five Books of 2017 (254) Books Read in 2013 (135) » 10 meer Louise Penny (8) Books Read in 2024 (416) Books Read in 2015 (2,379) Books Read in 2016 (4,335) Books Read in 2021 (3,750) To be read (6) Bezig met laden...
![]() Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I wish I still loved this series, but there's so much dragging on of angst from one book to another it's making me tense as I read. The setting here was interesting (Penny is wrecking relationships in a monastery and leaving the villagers of Three Pines to a much-needed rest this time) but the plot had its usual long list of suspects etc. I also noted ambiguous references to homosexuality yet again: get over it Louise! Ok I confess, I read half of the book then skipped to the end. After the last book ended with a paranoid drug addicted Beauvoir, this one started as though all was hunky dory. Beauvoir and Gamache daughter Annie are having an affair, everyone is happy, happy. Then Gamache and Beauvoir get called to a crime. In a hidden monastery. Where there are only 24 monks. Oops, 23 now! It’s pretty obvious only 2 of the 23 have any kind of motive for murder, and soon becomes obvious which one is the guilty party. But we slog along through half the book, eating chocolate covered blueberries and attending multiple religious services each day when suddenly ... a plane! It’s going to fly into the monastery! No, after buzzing the place 3 times we hear a splash! We all run out to see... the plane taxiing into the dock. Out steps none other than, Francour, Gamaches arch enemy. Here’s where I skipped to the end. Francour gets Beauvoir addicted to painkillers again, convinced him Gamache left him to die alone, and they leave Gamache barefaced. Oh, yeah, the monk is tricked into confessing. Look, I get these are Ms Penny’s stories and characters but that doesn’t mean I have to like em. If this is your cup of tea, read with my blessing. Not my bag, sorry Murder in a cloistered monastery becomes complicated as Gamache's vengeful boss shows up to control and interfere. Armand and Jean-Guy are still fighting the demons unleased by the death of their colleagues in a previous case. The history and allure of "Chant" seem to identify a significant motivation for the murder of the Prior. Lots of insights into history, people and locale are blended to make this a very intriguing and notable read,
The “beautiful mystery” of Penny’s eighth Gamache mystery refers to Gregorian chant, plainsong, and its mysterious allure and spiritual appeal even to the lay listener. Playing off the international sensation surrounding the 1994 release of recordings of the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos, The Beautiful Mystery finds Gamache and his loyal lieutenant, Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir, being called to a monastery to investigate the murder of a monk. But it’s not just any monastery, and it’s not just any monk. The mysterious Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups monastery existed in isolation for hundreds of years, two dozen monks living in the remote Quebec wilderness, accessible only by plane or boat, with a plain wooden door locked to the world. They are the last vestiges of the Gilbertines, an order of monks devoted to plainsong, who vanished during the Inquisition. Their seclusion came to an end, however, with the release of a recording of their chants, a recording which became a sensation around the world, drawing pilgrims and the press, all of whom met with the locked door at the gate. The door opens to Gamache and Beauvoir, however, as they come to investigate the murder of Brother Mathieu, the choirmaster. The choir of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups became a sensation on the basis of a single recording, but that success has also created a fracture in the monastic community, “a civil war, fought with glances and small gestures,” which Gamache and Beauvoir discover early on in their investigation. That fracture makes everyone in the once close-knit community a suspect in the choirmaster’s murder. The mystery – which is in itself compelling, and reminiscent, on the surface and unavoidably, of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose – works as a catalyst for an ongoing series of inquiries into the nature of faith, loyalty and friendship, deepening familiar characters and developing relationships in a realistic, often painful fashion. It’s a stirring, thought- provoking read, less a matter of whodunit than a relentless questioning of why any of us do anything. The Beautiful Mystery satisfies as a mystery, and stands as a powerful literary novel in its own right, regardless of whether one has read the previous seven novels in the series. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Is opgenomen inPrijzenErelijsten
De Canadese hoofdinspecteur Gamache en zijn assistent Beauvoir onderzoeken de moord op een monnik binnen de muren van een oud klooster. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen
![]() GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:![]()
Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |
"Jeez," said Beauvoir. "The Inquisition. I didn't expect that." "No one does," said Gamache. (