Chief Inspector Armand Gamache · Book 4
A Rule Against Murder
- Published
- 1 October 2008
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN-13
- 9781429945370
- Type
- novel
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About this book
A Rule Against Murder (2008), published in the UK and Canada as The Murder Stone, is the fourth Gamache novel. At 336 pages, it picks up after The Cruelest Month, with Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache once again drawn into a case that tests the quiet decency at the heart of the series.
Its place in Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
A Rule Against Murder is book 4 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. It follows The Cruelest Month. It is followed by The Brutal Telling. See the full Chief Inspector Armand Gamache reading order.
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec is the rarest thing in crime fiction: a genuinely good man. Courtly, patient, fluent in poetry and human weakness, he teaches his agents four sentences that lead to wisdom — I was wrong. I'm sorry. I don't know. I need help. — and solves murders not by trickery but by listening until people reveal themselves. His cases keep returning him to Three Pines, a village south of Montreal that appears on no map, where croissants and cafe au lait at Olivier's bistro…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781429945370