A chief inspector in Quebec is called to a tiny village where he finds luminaries of the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light, where every sweet relationship hides a broken heart. -- Booklist (starred review).
Her characters are too rich, her grasp of nuance and human psychology too firm....
Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie [but] it sells her short.
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.
Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart.
Behind every smile there lurks a sneer.
Where nothing is as it seems.
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.
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.
But now Lillian herself is dead.
Sweet relationships are dead.
Hearts are broken, Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book.
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.
A chief inspector in Quebec is called to a tiny village where he finds luminaries of the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light, where every sweet relationship hides a broken heart
