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Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand
Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the SΓ»retΓ©
du QuΓ©bec, has found a peace heβd only imagined possible. On
warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small
book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. βThere is a
balm in Gilead,β his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the
dust jacket, βto make the wounded whole.β
While Gamache doesnβt 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 Gamacheβs
help to find him. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache
feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three
Pines. βThereβs power enough in Heaven,β he finishes the
quote as he contemplates the quiet village, βto cure a
sin-sick soul.β 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 QuΓ©bec. 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.
Start Reading THE LONG WAY HOME Now
 Chief Inspector Gamache STILL LIFE
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β’ October 2025
 STILL LIFE
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β’ May 2007
 A FATAL GRACE
#2.0
β’ February 2008
 THE CRUELEST MONTH
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β’ December 2008
 A RULE AGAINST MURDER
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β’ September 2009
 THE BRUTAL TELLING
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β’ October 2009
 BURY YOUR DEAD
#6.0
β’ October 2010
 A TRICK OF THE LIGHT
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β’ September 2011
 THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY
#8.0
β’ September 2012
 HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN
#9.0
β’ September 2013
 THE LONG WAY HOME
#10.0
β’ September 2014
 THE NATURE OF THE BEAST
#11.0
β’ September 2015
 A GREAT RECKONING
#12.0
β’ September 2016
 GLASS HOUSES
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β’ September 2017
 KINGDOM OF THE BLIND
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β’ December 2018
 A BETTER MAN
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β’ September 2019
 ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE
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β’ September 2020
 THE MADNESS OF CROWDS
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β’ September 2021
 A WORLD OF CURIOSITIES
#18.0
β’ December 2022
 THE GREY WOLF
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β’ November 2024
 THE BLACK WOLF
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