Series: Chief Inspector Gamache Book 7
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Length: 339 pages
Audiobook Length: 11 hours and 43 minutes
First Published: 2011
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Rachael’s Review
In Three Pines, Clara Morrow finally celebrates her triumphant first solo show as an artist only to discover a dead body in her garden the next day. To her shock, the victim is Clara’s estranged childhood friend who made a name for herself as a vicious art critic. Now Inspector Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir must dive once again into the people of Three Pines to catch a killer.
In the seventh installment of the Gamache series, Louise Penny seems to have solidly decided to shift the series toward being art mysteries. The latest case was a satisfying look at the character motivations of your favorite local citizens. Penny delivers more of the same in A Trick of the Light, which is nice in its predictability but does not exactly excite the imagination.
Publisher’s Description
“Hearts are broken,” Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. “Sweet relationships are dead.”
But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow’s garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara’s solo show at the famed Musée in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, is called to the tiny Quebec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light. Where nothing is as it seems. Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart.
And even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to Gamache and his team if what they’ve found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light.
About Louise Penny
Louise Penny is the author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. Her husband Michael was the inspiration for Armand Gamache; he died in 2016. Penny currently lives in a small village south of Montréal. Visit the author’s website →
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