A Trick of the Light

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'A cracking storyteller' ANN CLEEVES

There is more to solving a crime than following the clues.
Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings.

In the green depths of spring, morning breaks on a woman splayed in a bed of flowers - her eyes wide, her neck broken.

Her death is a mystery; so is the woman herself. But as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team peer into the dark corners of the victim's past, they expose a secret that rots at the very heart of their community - a secret that will implicate someone they've trusted for years. And as Gamache knows too well, in the flickering shadows of death, the truth may be just a trick of the light.

'Stellar . . . With her smart plot and fascinating, nuanced characters, Penny proves again that she is one of our finest writers' PEOPLE MAGAZINE

(P) 2012 Isis Audiobooks

Critics Review

  • Stellar . . . With her smart plot and fascinating, nuanced characters, Penny proves again that she is one of our finest writers

    People Magazine

  • Outstanding . . . Penny effectively employs the interplay of light and dark . . . which resonates symbolically in the souls of the characters

    Publishers Weekly

  • A commanding and artful performance . . . For connoisseurs of mysteries, success is judged by the genre’s holy trinity: plot, people and prose. When all three attain excellence, a fourth quality shines through: power . . . what lifts her work to the highest plane is the deep sense of humanity with which she invests her novels, and A TRICK OF THE LIGHT satisfies and surpasses that standard

    Richmond Times-Dispatch

  • Louise Penny’s writing is intricate, beautiful and compelling. She is an original voice, a distillation of both PD James and Barbara Vine at their peaks and a worthy successor to both

    Peter James

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