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    The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
    The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
    The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
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    The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

    Written by Louise Penny

    Narrated by Ralph Cosham

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    About this audiobook

    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. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a balm in Gilead," his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, "to make the wounded whole."

    While Gamache doesn't talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. She wants Gamache's help to find him. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. "There's power enough in Heaven," he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, "to cure a sin-sick soul." And then he gets up. And joins her.

    Together with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey deeper and deeper into Québec. And deeper and deeper into the soul of Peter Morrow. A man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist, he would sell that soul. And may have. The journey takes them further and further from Three Pines, to the very mouth of the great St. Lawrence river. To an area so desolate, so damned, the first mariners called it The land God gave to Cain. And there they discover the terrible damage done by a sin-sick soul.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateAug 26, 2014
    ISBN9781427244307
    The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
    Author

    Louise Penny

    LOUISE PENNY is the author of the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling series of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, and coauthor with Hillary Rodham Clinton of the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller State of Terror. She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (nine times), and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. In 2017, she received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture. Louise lives in a small village south of Montréal.

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    • 4/5
      I still love this series, but found this particular book to be a bit slow. It had a great finish though.
    • 3/5
      This was a good book but could have been better by not making me jump around from past to present. I felt like each time I went back to continue it I had to review where I was and which time period I should be imagining. :(
    • 5/5
      As always, a beautifully written puzzle about the passions that drive people to happiness, or to ruin.
    • 4/5
      There is a feeling of desolation and utmost loneliness in this book and it has a sad ending, although the resolution of the mystery was not entirely convincing or satisfying for me. As always Louise Penny delves into the psychology of her characters and their deepest fears and motives. Wonderfully narrated.
    • 5/5
      Thea books are not so much about solving a nursery - although it does that - as it is about exploring feelings and relationships.
    • 3/5
      Good, not great. Predictable and not a single murder- and sometimes, you just need no murders, ya know?
    • 4/5
      There were parts of this story that spoke to me in deeply personal ways and I felt wonder and grateful. The end was a bit convoluted and confusing and I felt a bit like ‘what?’ I didn’t always read the books in sequence, however, was happy to finally understand the events that later shadow so many other books and perhaps I was finally ready to appreciate the journey.