Chief Inspector Armand Gamache · Book 5
The Brutal Telling
- Published
- 22 September 2009
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN-13
- 9782890776708
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Brutal Telling (2009) is the book where, by reader consensus, the Gamache series shifts into another gear -- the fifth of twenty entries, and the start of a run through How the Light Gets In considered one of the great sustained sequences in modern mystery fiction. It runs 400 pages.
Its place in Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
The Brutal Telling is book 5 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. It follows A Rule Against Murder. It is followed by Bury Your Dead. 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
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