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How the Light Gets In - Penny
4 stars

This is the book that I had to read twice because I made the mistake of reading it out of order. I might have expected to find it less suspenseful the second time around. Not so. It still had me on the edge of my seat, even as I told myself that the evil plot was completely over the top and unlikely. I was thankful for the dog, Henri, who supplied some comic relief.

It was painful to read Beauvoir’s apparently losing fight with addiction, Penny writes the truth of the battle. Addiction and recovery are an ongoing theme in this series.

I enjoyed the sub-plot of the last quintuplet. It was a complete mystery in itself, only delegated to sub-lot in my mind because the dangerous conspiracy overwhelmed everything else.

The title of this book comes from Leonard Cohen’s moving Anthem. Ruth gets credit for a poem by Marylyn Plessner.