{"id":730,"date":"2011-10-20T20:20:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T03:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=730"},"modified":"2014-01-19T09:18:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T17:18:03","slug":"a-trick-of-the-light-a-chief-inspector-gamache-novel-by-louise-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"A Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/11066414\/79275936\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 12px; margin-right: 12px;\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.librarything.com\/picsizes\/1c\/f8\/1cf89339eda027d593948775a41434d414f4541.jpg\" alt=\"A Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This book is as good as the previous in the series, but in my opinion, a bit darker.  Gamache and Beauvior have some personal issues to resolve.  But Clara has her moment to shine in the art world, or she would if a dead body didn&#8217;t show up.  <\/p>\n<p>A long-time friend turned evil art critic that everyone hates appeared and died during Clara&#8217;s vernissage.  Lots of suspects, naturally.  Gamache and crew investigate in their calm and relentless manner to uncover the killer.  <\/p>\n<p>The one part I felt lacking was the conclusion.  It was done too much in the style of Agatha Christie.  I&#8217;m sure it was an homage, but felt more of a domage.  It was just a bit too much.  <\/p>\n<p>The characters are as rich as ever, there is plenty going on to keep the reader involved.  Overall, it is a very good book.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is as good as the previous in the series, but in my opinion, a bit darker. Gamache and Beauvior have some personal issues to resolve. But Clara has her moment to shine in the art world, or she would if a dead body didn&#8217;t show up. A long-time friend turned evil art critic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21,1],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery","category-series","category-uncategorized","tag-chief-inspector-armand-gamache"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}