The Long Way Home
- Published
- 26 August 2014
- Pages
- 420
- ISBN-13
- 9780751552713
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Long Way Home (2014) is the tenth Gamache novel, arriving the year after the series' widely praised peak in How the Light Gets In. At 420 pages, it follows Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache into the aftermath of that earlier book's events.
Key facts about The Long Way Home
The Long Way Home is a novel by Louise Penny. Readers have had it since 26 August 2014. It runs to 420 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of The Long Way Home. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780751552713 to find the main one.
The Long Way Home is book 10 of 20 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. The series has 20 published books. However, the series starts with Still Life (2005). The Black Wolf is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 28 October 2025.
That series sits on our mystery shelf. Meanwhile, The Last Mandarin is the latest published Louise Penny book on file, from 12 May 2026.
About Louise Penny
Louise Penny is a Canadian author best known for the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, a long-running literary mystery series set largely in the fictional Quebec village of Three Pines, where a tight-knit cast of eccentric locals recurs across cases investigated by the thoughtful, morally grounded Sûreté du Québec inspector Gamache. See every Louise Penny book in order.
Its place in Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
The Long Way Home is book 10 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. It follows How the Light Gets In. It is followed by The Nature of the Beast. 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 9781250060617
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250022066
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781405529488