

Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines.

Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. While Gamache doesn’t talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. “There is a balm in Gilead,” his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, “to make the wounded whole.” On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he’d only imagined possible.

( From the publisher.A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Louise Penny’s The Long Way Home is an intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache Novel.

The frantic search for answers takes the investigators back to Three Pines and a stained glass window with its own horrific secrets.įor both Amelia Choquet and Armand Gamache, the time has come for a great reckoning. The focus of the investigation soon turns to Gamache himself and his mysterious relationship with Amelia, and his possible involvement in the crime. Amelia is more likely to be found on the other side of a police line-up. And, with the body, a copy of the old, odd map.Įverywhere Gamache turns, he sees Amelia Choquet, one of the cadets. But must.Īnd there he finds four young cadets in the Surete academy, and a dead professor. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Surete du Québec to places even he is afraid to go. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerful truth in her latest spellbinding novel. A Great Reckoning (Inspector Gamach series, 12)
