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A trick of the light : a Chief Inspector Gamache novel / Louise Penny.

Penny, Louise, (author.).

Summary:

“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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780312655457 (hardcover) :
  • ISBN: 9781250007346 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: viii, 339 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Minotaur Boooks, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Sept 11
Target Audience Note:
All Ages.
Subject: Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Police > Québec (Province) > Fiction.
Murder Investigation > Fiction
Murder > Fiction
Secrets > Fiction
Police Investigation > Fiction
Homicide > Fiction
Québec (Province) > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Genre: Detetctive and mystery stories.
Detective and mystery stories.
Mystery fiction.

Available copies

  • 38 of 44 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Radium Hot Springs Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 44 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Radium Hot Springs Public Library FIC PEN (Text) 35130000016828 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

  • Baker & Taylor
    Investigating a murder at a solo artist's Quebec village home, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team encounter deceptive nuances in the art world that distort every clue they find with tales of duality and broken hearts. By the Agatha Award-winning author of Bury Your Dead. 100,000 first printing.
  • Baker & Taylor
    Investigating a murder at a solo artist's Quebec village home, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team encounter deceptive nuances in the art world that distort every clue they find with tales of duality and broken hearts.
  • McMillan Palgrave

    A New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011
    A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller books for 2011

    With A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny takes us back to the deceptively peaceful village of Three Pines in this brilliant novel in her award-winning, New York Times bestselling series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.

    "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.

    "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...." --Booklist (starred review)


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