A Trick of the Light
thrilling and page-turning crime fiction from the author of the bestselling Inspector Gamache novels
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4.5 • 51 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
'A cracking storyteller' ANN CLEEVES
'Stellar . . . With her smart plot and fascinating, nuanced characters, Penny proves again that she is one of our finest writers' PEOPLE MAGAZINE
There is more to solving a crime than following the clues.
Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings.
In the green depths of spring, morning breaks on a woman splayed in a bed of flowers - her eyes wide, her neck broken.
Her death is a mystery; so is the woman herself. But as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team peer into the dark corners of the victim's past, they expose a secret that rots at the very heart of their community - a secret that will implicate someone they've trusted for years. And as Gamache knows too well, in the flickering shadows of death, the truth may be just a trick of the light.
Millions of readers worldwide.
One inimitable Chief Inspector Gamache.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Penny's outstanding seventh Chief Inspector Gamache novel, Gamache and his loyal deputy in Qu bec's S ret , Insp. Jean Guy Beauvoir, are still coming to terms with the multiple physical and emotional traumas they suffered in the previous book, Bury Your Dead. These tribulations have already cost Beauvoir his marriage. Meanwhile, the day after the triumphant opening of a show of their friend Clara Morrow's paintings at Montr al's Mus e d'Art Contemporain, a dead woman with a broken neck turns up in Clara's garden in the small town of Three Pines. Gamache and his team return to this outwardly idyllic community once again to ascertain whether one of its residents is a murderer. With her usual subtle touch and timely injections of humor, Penny effectively employs the recurring motif of the chiaroscuro, the interplay of light and dark, which distinguishes Morrow's artwork and which resonates symbolically in the souls of the author's characters. 100,000 first printing; author tour.
Customer Reviews
A Trick of Light
Wow I am totally hooked. This is not just an amazing book it is the next step in an incredible series that keeps on growing. The characters are growing & growing. The murders are irrelevant and just serve as a background to the development of these amazing people. Thank you, it is a pleasure to enjoy their company for a short while.