I don’t think I’ve read Louise Penny before, pulled this off the recents shelf at the library. Eh. Didn’t like the writing style - it was incredibly curt and a little confusing. Lots of characters introduced quickly which I see this is #17 in a series probably from that! Heh. So that could be on me but it does say “a novel”.
The short sentences made it hard to get caught up in it. I skipped through and read individual pages to the end but nothing I read made me want to go back and figure out what was really happening.