Glass Houses by Penny Louise is Chief Inspector Gamache #13 set in Three Pines, a small town in Quebec. Armand
Gamache is Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté. The
plot is about fooling the drug cartels into believing the Sûreté is incompetent
and thus trapping them. There is also a murder from fifteen years ago. The simplicity
of the main plot is counterbalanced by a narrative that ping-pongs between two timelines,
seemingly at random. Not my favorite of this series.
The book includes some interesting history of
bootlegging during prohibition in the United States.
A cobrabor is a tradition that states
back to fourteenth-century Spain. Originally the cobrador dressed in
black robes and followed someone to embarrass them for bad behavior. They were
a conscience of sorts. Not surprisingly, the cobradors were often murdered.
More recently, the cobradors wore fancy dress and carried a briefcase
labeled debt collector to embarrass someone to pay their debts.
A mystery that revolves around drug cartels unbelievably
centering their activities in Three Pines.
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