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The Nature of the Feast

Cooking Through The Nature of the Feast: A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny

By Doreen Sheridan

November 23, 2016

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the last book in the Inspector Gamache series to date. It is the very satisfying culmination of several important series plot points, including the very puzzling question of why Three Pines—the peaceful, if occasionally murder-prone, village that provides safe harbor throughout most of the books—cannot be found on any…

Cooking Through The Nature of the Feast: The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny

By Doreen Sheridan

November 16, 2016

Those of you who have been following this column will know that I was not particularly happy with the ending of the previous book in the series. I was very much looking to this one to assuage my fears as to whether Louise Penny was an author I could implicitly trust with the difficult, moral…

Cooking Through The Nature of the Feast: The Long Way Home by Louise Penny

By Doreen Sheridan

November 9, 2016

I think this is the first time that I have vehemently disagreed with the direction an Inspector Gamache novel took. I mean, even in my disbelief at the ending of The Brutal Telling, I felt confident in Louise Penny’s storytelling skills that it would all eventually make sense (and it did in the novel that…

Cooking Through The Nature of the Feast: How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny

By Doreen Sheridan

November 2, 2016

This was the first book I ever read in the Inspector Gamache series—back when it first came out—and, boy, was that a mistake! I only realized this upon reading the preceding eight novels, then re-reading this one. I missed so much by starting here first! Back when How the Light Gets In first came out,…

Cooking Through The Nature of the Feast: The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

By Doreen Sheridan

October 26, 2016

The bad news is that we hear virtually nothing of the village of Three Pines and its inhabitants in this 8th installment of Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series. The good news is that Ms. Penny has instead decided to tackle one of the greatest mysteries in music history! Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his second-in-command,…

Cooking Through The Nature of the Feast: A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny

By Doreen Sheridan

October 19, 2016

I was an information technology major in college, and in one exam, we were asked to write a program involving the colors black and white. Having an artistic bent, I named it Chiaroscuro, to the bemusement of my lecturer (and several of my classmates, who reacted in much the same way Inspector Beauvoir does to…

Cooking Through The Nature of the Feast: Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

By Doreen Sheridan

October 12, 2016

One of my favorite things in life is saying “I told you so,”  so if you read my review of The Brutal Telling, you’ll understand why my satisfaction with Bury Your Dead goes beyond an appreciation of the elegant storytelling and excellent plot. It’s so very nice, six books into Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series,…

Cooking Through The Nature of the Feast: The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny

By Doreen Sheridan

October 5, 2016

Whaaaaaaaaat?! Wait, what, really? Is this how I know I’ve become a resident of Three Pines, at least in spirit, by my reaction to the ending of The Brutal Telling—the 5th book in Louise Penny’s best-selling Inspector Gamache series—being one of the same bewilderment and grief that grips the village in which most of the…

Cooking Through The Nature of the Feast: A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny

By Doreen Sheridan

September 28, 2016

I love manor mystery novels—you know the kind—where a group of guests stays at a secluded manor and one of them is murdered. That’s the concept behind Louise Penny’s excellent fourth installment of the Inspector Gamache series, A Rule Against Murder. Inspector Armand Gamache is at the historic Manoir Bellechasse for his wedding anniversary with…

Cooking Through The Nature of the Feast: The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

By Doreen Sheridan

September 21, 2016

Easter has come to Three Pines! In this time of resurrection and renewal, one of the owners of the local B&B has decided to advertise the services of an unwitting guest as a spiritualist. Jeanne Chauvet thought she was there for a holiday, so she is rather bemused to find herself leading a Friday night…

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