The long way home book louise penny5/9/2023 Clutching at a few meager clues, the most intriguing being some atrocious paintings Peter sent to his sister’s child, Gamache and Clara follow the lost artist’s perilous journey to find himself. But that anniversary has come and gone without any word, and Clara is afraid Peter’s in terrible trouble, might even be dead. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has retired from the Sûreté du Québec to live a contemplative life, enjoying the company of his eccentric neighbors and hoping to be anointed with the “balm in Gilead” that will “make the wounded whole” and “cure a sin-sick soul.” Gamache is moved by the plight of one neighbor, Clara Morrow, a painter whose husband, Peter, left home when her artistic reputation eclipsed his own - promising to return in exactly one year, presumably after intense soul-searching. In THE LONG WAY HOME (Minotaur, $27.99), she makes the task more challenging by putting her detective out to pasture. Louise Penny, who sets her enchanting stories in a sheltered Quebec village she calls Three Pines, keeps inventing new ways to avoid the inevitable reckoning. Sooner or later, every writer of small-town mysteries must confront the occupational hazard of running out of murderers and victims.
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