Chief Inspector Armand Gamache · Book 7
A Trick of the Light
- Published
- 30 August 2011
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9781529385434
- Type
- novel
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About this book
A Trick of the Light (2011) is the seventh Gamache novel, arriving as Louise Penny's decades-spanning Surete corruption arc continued to ripple through Three Pines and the wider investigation. It runs 352 pages, following Bury Your Dead.
Its place in Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
A Trick of the Light is book 7 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. It follows Bury Your Dead. It is followed by The Beautiful Mystery. 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 9780751544138
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