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As Quebec City shivers in the grip of winter, its ancient stone walls cracking in the cold, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache plunges into the most unusual case of his celebrated career. A man has been brutally murdered in one of the city's oldest buildings - a library where the English citizens... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Armand Gamache: Chief Inspector of the homicide department of the Surete du Quebec. Highly respected and celebrated cop. The "explorer" of the team.
- Jean-guy Beauvoir: Inspector of the homicide department of the Surete du Quebec, second in command to CI Gamache. Believer in facts, does not hold much truck with intuition or feelings.
- Samuel De Champlain: Celebrated founder of Quebec.
- Augustin Renaud: Amateur historian obsessed with finding the grave of Champlain.
- Henri: CI Gamache's dog.
- Langlois: Inspector of the Quebec City police.
- Mr. Blake: Member of the Board of the Lit and His society, Anglophone in Quebec City.
- Emile: Mentor to Armand Gamache
- Winnie: Member of the Board of the Lit and His society.
- Myrna: Woman in three pines who runs the bookstore.
- Gabri: Olivier's partner, runs the bistro and B&B
- Porter Wilson: Member of the Board of the Lit and His society.
- Olivier: Gabri's partner, owner of most buildings of Three Pines
- Francoeur: Chief superintendent of the surete du quebec. Division of narcotics.
- Émile: Inspector Gamache's mentor, now retired.
- Marie: Add a description of this character.
- Tom Hancock: Minister.
- Ruth Zardo: Governer General's award winning poet; resident of Three Pines
- Patrick
- Elizabeth Macwhirter: Dowager queen of the Lit & His.
- Paul Morin: trainee agent with the surete du quebec, killed in a shootout.
- Lacoste
- Yvette Nichol
- Ken Haslam: Vocally challenged member of the Lit & His board.
- Chiniquy: Catholic priest and prohibitionist from the 19th century.
- Montcalm: One of the French combatants of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
- James Douglas
- Carole Gilbert
- Marc Gilbert
- Dominique Gilbert
- Suzanne
- Charlie Mundin: Old Mundin's son, diagnosed with Down's Syndrome.
- Peter
- Annie: CI Gamache and Reine-Marie Gamache's daughter.
- Vincent Gilbert
- Madame Reine-Marie Gamache: CI Gamache's wife.
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“...the night is indeed a strawberry, but added that the English were good pumpkins and that the library had a particularly impressive section on mattresses and mattress warfare. ... After Winnie left, saying she had to launch a new line of doorknobs, Gamache explained.”
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I’m sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don’t know.
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Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other,”
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“Go now to your dwelling place,” he said to Morin. “To enter into the days of your togetherness. And may your days be good and long upon the earth.”
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Kebek. An Algonquin word. Where the river narrows.
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It smelled of the past, of a time before computers, before information was “Googled” and “blogged.” Before laptops and BlackBerries and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge.
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“Joy doesn’t ever leave, you know. It’s always with you. And one day you’ll find it again.”
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That was often the equation, give up the few to save the many. From a distance it seemed so simple, so clear. And yet, from a distance you might see the big picture, but not the whole picture, you missed the details. Not everything was seen, from a distance.
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“Sometimes life goes in a direction not of our choosing,” said the minister, softly. “That’s why we need to adapt. It’s never too late to change direction.”
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And while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.
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That was the weakness, Gamache knew, about New Worlds. People brought old conflicts.
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Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
Up the stairs they raced, taking them two at a time, trying to be as quiet as possible.
Table of Contents edit
26 Untitled chapters
Series & Lists edit
This is book 6 of 9 in Armand Gamache. (standard series)
Preceded by The Brutal Telling, and followed by A Trick of the Light.
This is book 6 of 7 in Chief Inspector Gamache. (standard series)
Preceded by The Brutal Telling, and followed by A Trick of the Light.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Louise Penny (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Minatour a division of St. Martin's Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 28, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-312-37704-5
Page Count: 371
Publisher: Minatour a division of St. Martin's Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: September 28, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-312-37704-5
Page Count: 371
Awards edit
- Agatha Award (Finalist, 2010: Best Novel)
- Macavity Awards (2011: Best Mystery Novel)
- Arthur Ellis Award (2011: Best Crime Novel)
- Anthony Award (2011: Best Novel)
- Barry Award (2011: Best Novel, nominee)
- Nero Award Winner (2011: Best American Mystery written in the tradition of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories)
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- Dewey: 813
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