Her estranged husband, Peter, also an artist but one whose career has been eclipsed by his wife’s success, has failed to make an agreed rendezvous to reassess their marraige.

Not a wound, but a wonder.”īut if Armad has come here to make a fresh start, he cannot ignore a personal request from the artist Clara Morrow, one of his neighbours, to use his detective skills and contacts. Then his eyes dropped to the village in the valley below them, as though held in the palm of an ancient hand. “Armand Gamache looked across to the deep green midsummer forest and the mountains that rolled into eternity. The quietude of Three Pines, a village so small it hardly exits on any map, seems the perfect place in which to achieve the desired calm. It’s a time for reflection and a time for healing after his incendiary confrontation with terrorism and police corruption in the last novel How the Light Gets In. Gamache, newly retired from his post as head of the Sûreté du Québec has moved from Montreal to live in the village of Three Pines with his wife Reine-Marie. This is the latest novel in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series by Canadian best selling author Louise Penny and if the plot of this tenth title seems a little weaker than its predecessors, the psychological perspectives, strong sense of place and memorable characters are undiminished.

Within just a few pages of The Long Way Home it’s evident that you’re in the hands of an accomplished writer.

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