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HTML: How the Light Gets In is the ninth Chief Inspector Gamache Novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.
"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." ??Leonard Cohen
Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department, his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasn't spoken to him in months, and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message from Myrna Landers that a longtime friend has failed to arrive for Christmas in the village of Three Pines, he welcomes the chance to get away from the city. Mystified by Myrna's reluctance to reveal her friend's name, Gamache soon discovers the missing woman was once one of the most famous people not just in North America, but in the world, and now goes unrecognized by virtually everyone except the mad, brilliant poet Ruth Zardo.
As events come to a head, Gamache is drawn ever deeper into the world of Three Pines. Increasingly, he is not only investigating the disappearance of Myrna's friend but also seeking a safe place for himself and his still-loyal colleagues. Is there peace to be found even in Three Pines, and at what cost to Gamache and the people he holds dear?
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HTML: How the Light Gets In is the ninth Chief Inspector Gamache Novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.
"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." ??Leonard Cohen
Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department, his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasn't spoken to him in months, and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message from Myrna Landers that a longtime friend has failed to arrive for Christmas in the village of Three Pines, he welcomes the chance to get away from the city. Mystified by Myrna's reluctance to reveal her friend's name, Gamache soon discovers the missing woman was once one of the most famous people not just in North America, but in the world, and now goes unrecognized by virtually everyone except the mad, brilliant poet Ruth Zardo.
As events come to a head, Gamache is drawn ever deeper into the world of Three Pines. Increasingly, he is not only investigating the disappearance of Myrna's friend but also seeking a safe place for himself and his still-loyal colleagues. Is there peace to be found even in Three Pines, and at what cost to Gamache and the people he holds dear?
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Weihnachten steht vor der Tür, und in Québec bedeutet das funkelnde Lichter, verschneite Landschaften und trautes Beisammensein vor knisternden Kaminen. Doch für Chief Inspector Armand Gamache liegt dieses Jahr ein Schatten über der Weihnachtszeit. Denn viele Jahre konnte sich Polizeichef Armand Gamache auf die Sûreté du Québec verlassen, doch nun herrschen dort Verrat und Intrigen. Auch Gamaches ehemaliger Stellvertreter und Vertrauter, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, ist versetzt worden und hat seit Monaten kein Wort mit ihm gesprochen. Als Gamache dann auch noch einen verzweifelten Anruf von Myrna Landers aus Three Pines bekommt, ist es endgültig mit der festlichen Stimmung vorbei. | |
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December in Three Pines, a small, hidden village in Québec, means lots of snow and Christmas preparations. Seventy-seven years old Constance Pineault comes for a visit and stays at Myrna’s, who invites her to come back and stay over Christmas. But Constance does not arrive and does not answer her phone at home and Myrna calls an old friend, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, homicide department Sûreté du Québec. When Gamache finds out the real identity of Constance, he starts to investigate. For him this comes very convenient, as he at the same time secretly is conducting internal investigations and digging deeper and deeper into old, powerful connections, who are prepared to whatever it takes to stop him.
Theme and genre
This Canadian crime fiction novel is book nine of the Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery series.
Characters
Three Pines is a special place and community and its inhabitants are loveable. Who would not like Ruth Zardo, the hard, edgy, old poet and her duck Rosa? Chief Inspector Armand Gamache looks more like a professor than a cop and is a brilliant investigator and a deeply caring person. When other investigators look for clues to the killer, he looks for clues to the life of the victim.
Plot and writing
This novel is everything, a story about love, family and friendship, about life in a rural village, but also about crime, murder and deadly danger. Louise Penny perfectly knows how to write a gripping and thrilling plot with many twists, but also colorful descriptions of the beautiful surroundings in December and at the same time look at human behavior with empathy and humanity. Funny dialogs such as “‘Are you telling me the elite of the Sûreté followed Santa Claus through downtown Montréal?‘ ‘Not Santa. It was Snow White.’” (citation page 508), make you laugh out loud while breathless reading through the absorbing story full of intrigue.
Conclusion
A gripping, wonderful, perfect page-turner. For me this was the first book of the series, but I will definitely follow Armand Gamache to his next cases and also go back for some of the older cases. (