The Long Way Home
A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
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4.2 • 221 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Louise Penny's The Long Way Home is an intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache Novel.
Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a balm in Gilead," his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, "to make the wounded whole."
While Gamache doesn't talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. She wants Gamache's help to find him. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. "There's power enough in Heaven," he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, "to cure a sin-sick soul." And then he gets up. And joins her.
Together with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey deeper and deeper into Québec. And deeper and deeper into the soul of Peter Morrow. A man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist, he would sell that soul. And may have. The journey takes them further and further from Three Pines, to the very mouth of the great St. Lawrence river. To an area so desolate, so damned, the first mariners called it the land God gave to Cain. And there they discover the terrible damage done by a sin-sick soul.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Officially retired, former chief of homicide Armand Gamache is at his beloved Quebec village of Three Pines, healing in mind and body after his ordeal in 2013's How the Light Gets In, when a neighbor, celebrated artist Clara Morrow, asks him to find her estranged husband. Peter Morrow, also an artist, had departed Three Pines the previous year, promising to return on a specific day to discuss the status of their marriage. He didn't make it and Clara is concerned. So is Gamache, who, as Penny has it, sees the shadow of murder even on sunny days. Thus begins a long, long journey during which Gamache, his loyal former assistant and now son-in-law, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, Clara, and some of the other delightfully eccentric villagers have an assortment of adventures. Cosham, who has been this series' narrator for a while, has a comforting, avuncular British accent. To this he smoothly blends in a French influence that becomes more apparent in his pronunciation of Canadian names, places, and Quebecois dialogue. Cosham voices Gamache with a wary, almost fearful caution as he approaches the new case, but as the search for the missing painter goes from Toronto to Paris to a desolate spot on the St. Lawrence River, his voice grows stronger as his energy level rises. Jean-Guy, too, sounds more assertive and alive. Cosham's vocal interpretations are mainly subtle Clara, for example, doesn't sound very different from Gamache's wife, Raine-Marie but his version of the village's eccentric old poet, Ruth, has a distinctive sharpness not unlike that of the latter day Katharine Hepburn. A Minotaur hardcover.
Customer Reviews
louise penny est canadienne
Veuillez noter que Louise Penny est canadienne, née à Toronto, Ontario . Classer ses polars dans la section "britannique" est une erreur, et ce, même si plusieurs de ses livres ont reçus des prix internationnaux, dont le prix Agatha Christie.Elle réside actuellement au Québec, dans les Cantons de l'Est (Eastern Townships) , dans un village qui a inspiré Three Pines.
P.S.Je possède et j'ai lu tous ses livres (8) traduits en français, très bien traduits d'ailleurs.. Les expressions anglaises et les "quid pro quo" entre l'aubergiste et la vieille poétesse Ruth sont remarquables.
Salutations distinguées.
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Not the best
I usually love Ms. Penny’s books but this one was pretty much a lot of nonsense from Clara who suddenly wants her ***hole of a husband back and thus recruits Gamache and Beauvoir to « help » her find said husband. Overall, Clara with her lack of savoir être has always been my less favorite character in the series and this one confirmed my « dislike » of the woman.
Long way home
That was by far the worst book I have ever read all the way to the end. A huge disappointment!!{