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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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A Trick Of The Light by Louise Penny

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A TRICK OF THE LIGHT
By: Louise Penny

Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Series #7
St. Martin's Press
September 2011
On Sale: August 30, 2011
Featuring: Chief Inspector Gamache; Clara Morrow
352 pages
ISBN: 0312655452
EAN: 9780312655457
Hardcover
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Mystery

"Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie [but] it sells her short. Her characters are too rich, her grasp of nuance and human psychology too firm...." β€”Booklist (starred review)

β€œHearts are broken,” Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. β€œSweet 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 MusΓ©e in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the SΓ»retΓ© du QuΓ©bec, 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.

Chief Inspector Gamache

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A FATAL GRACE
#2.0 β€’ February 2008
The Cruelest Month
THE CRUELEST MONTH
#3.0 β€’ December 2008
A Rule Against Murder
A RULE AGAINST MURDER
#4.0 β€’ September 2009
The Brutal Telling
THE BRUTAL TELLING
#5.0 β€’ October 2009
Bury Your Dead
BURY YOUR DEAD
#6.0 β€’ October 2010
A Trick Of The Light
A TRICK OF THE LIGHT
#7.0 β€’ September 2011
The Beautiful Mystery
THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY
#8.0 β€’ September 2012
How the Light Gets In
HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN
#9.0 β€’ September 2013
The Long Way Home
THE LONG WAY HOME
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The Nature Of The Beast
THE NATURE OF THE BEAST
#11.0 β€’ September 2015
A Great Reckoning
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#12.0 β€’ September 2016
Glass Houses
GLASS HOUSES
#13.0 β€’ September 2017
Kingdom of the Blind
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#14.0 β€’ December 2018
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A BETTER MAN
#15.0 β€’ September 2019
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ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE
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