Book Review: Louise Penny’s The Long Way Home
The happily retired Armand Gamache has found peace. One that’s disturbed when Clara fears for her artist husband, Peter, who hasn’t come home. He’d promised…
The happily retired Armand Gamache has found peace. One that’s disturbed when Clara fears for her artist husband, Peter, who hasn’t come home. He’d promised…
Hostile forces are lining up against Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in Quebec, and he must save the reputation of the Sûreté, those he holds dear, and himself?
Two people found hanging naked from a tree – a black man and a white woman. A lynching? But Lucas Davenport begins to discover there is worse to come.
An assassin misses, and the no-longer-retired Clara Rinker goes on the hunt to find the killer herself. Anyone standing in the middle won’t stand a chance…
World-famous for their voices, the cloistered monks who have taken a vow of silence experience murder amongst their own, and Gamache must face his demons and those of others.
A French vineyard faces a hostile takeover by foreigners, and wine expert Benjamin Cooker audits the books only to be faced with an unexpected drowning.
A gruesome find during a major Parisian art event gets unexpected attention from Chief Nico Sirsky as he and his team chase the butcher of Paris.
An art history professor and writer and cheerful pervert, James Qatar had a hobby: he took secret photographs of women and turned them into highly sexual drawings. One day, he took the hobby a step further and… well, one thing led to another, and he had to kill her. A man in his position couldn’t be too careful, after all. And you know something? He liked it.
Already faced with a welter of confusion in his personal life, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport decides to take this case himself, hoping that some straightforward police work will clear his head, but as the trail begins to take some unexpected turns, it soon becomes clear that nothing is straightforward about this killer. The man is learning as he goes, Lucas realizes, taking great strides forward with each murder. He is becoming a monster — and Lucas may have no choice but to walk right into his lair…
A complex tale involving a serial sniper who strikes chillingly close to the forensic sleuth herself.
It’s a question of the letter or the spirit of the law as Inspector Ian Rutledge investigates a string of unrelated murders that began with a wedding.