The people they are dealing with all have something to hide, and it seems as if none of them are prone to saying what they truly think. Though they apply the tried-and-true methods from the start, the context of the case forces them to think outside the box. With a murder lurking among them, Gamache and his team have their work cut out for them. Upon his arrival, he is greeted to a veritable cornucopia or artists, having seemingly decided to all gather in this tiny village to inconvenience him and his investigation. In short, she wasn’t lacking for enemies, a fact which makes things quite difficult when her body is discovered among the flowers of Clara Marrow’s garden in Three Pines.Ĭhief Inspector Armand Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Quebec, is called in to investigate this peculiar case. The story begins by introducing us to Lillian Dyson, a famous and somewhat reviled art critic whose words have made and broken countless careers over the years. Each and every novel presents a self-contained case, although, if you’re a fan of murder mysteries in general, I would recommend you check out the previous novel, and perhaps the ones before it as well. The seventh book in A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery series doesn’t, in any way, require you to have read the previous chapters.
Fortunately for us, it’s one Chief Inspector Gamache must penetrate in A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny. Thriving on obfuscation, make-belief, and hidden meanings, the art world often tends to house those for whom deceit is second-nature. We are taught to be honest and reliable since early childhood, and yet despite this, the unerasable human trait of deceit still finds its way to the sunlight, in some people more than others.
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