Chief Inspector Armand Gamache · Book 8
The Beautiful Mystery
- Published
- 28 August 2012
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9781529386349
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Beautiful Mystery (2012) is the eighth Gamache novel, sitting between A Trick of the Light and How the Light Gets In -- the book widely considered the series' summit. At 448 pages, it's one of the longer entries in a run readers rate among the series' best.
Its place in Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
The Beautiful Mystery is book 8 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. It follows A Trick of the Light. It is followed by How the Light Gets In. 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 9781471320378
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781594136511
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