A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 17 by Louise Penny, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2021 Macmillan Audio

This book started out with an interesting theme: euthanasia. A person who claims to be a statistician has apparently discovered by analyzing the Covid19 pandemic that there aren’t enough resources available in the world to support the sick, deformed, dying and aged. She proceeds to give a talk at a college in Montreal about this revelation. At the beginning of her talk, someone fires a gun which narrowly misses her.

Later in the book another murder occurs in the village of Three Pines. This is where the book bogs down as there are numerous chapters in which Chief Inspector Gamasche hurtles from one conslucion to another. By the time I finished the book, I was happy that he had solved the murder, but I was even happier that I had finished the book.

Maybe I am getting jaded by too many Three Pines murder mysteries. I believe this is the next to the last one that Louise Penny has published, and I am currently listening to Book 18. I suspect that she will publish another one this fall, however, and I will have to do that one as well.