![]() The story is complex, with several murders that are somehow related, but it's not apparent how. This one, the first of the series, has a lot going for it. In the world of crime and mystery fiction this series is going to be one to watch…certainly when the next one becomes available I shall be knocking hapless book shop goers out of the way in my resolve to obtain a copy…Īlways nice to find a new series to read. There is a high degree of authenticity and an extremely realistic feeling to the whole story. Tightly plotted and intelligently written, with a definite eye towards current affairs, I was intrigued and fascinated by this world of which I know little. You always know you are onto a good thing when you pick up a book during a spare ten minutes then look up dazed an hour or so later and realise you missed your bus….ĭI Zigic and DS Ferreira are the very definition of a perfect yin and yang working detective team – well drawn, intriguing personalities, well rounded backgrounds and sitting well in their surroundings, the reader has two perfect, yet often contradictory, sets of eyes with which to follow the action. So, a debut novel and the start of a new detective series, you may ask, well, do we need anymore? My answer would be a resounding YES especially if they are going to be of this quality and standard. When a man is burnt alive in a suburban garden shed, it brings an unwelcome spotlight on to that world, and two detectives are faced with investigating a murder in a community that has more reason than most not to trust the police. Migrant workers, both legal and illegal, are working in the fields, the factories and the pubs of the town. Thank you so much to Eva Dolan and Alison Hennessey for the copy of this book to review. Hence, I cannot recommend this book, nor will I read any further books in this series. Too little happened and the story as a whole moved far too slowly for me. As a result, I had high expectations and sad to say, that I did not like this book enough to recommend it. Surprisingly the reviews have been good for this book. At times, it felt as if she were lecturing the reader rather than writing a crime/mystery. The author has a tendency to paint the locals as "all bad" & the migrants as the "poor misfortunates". They are even intolerant of the detectives' immigrant heritage.Įven though the immigrants are shown in a better light, other than the main detectives, there are no likeable characters in this book. The locals do not have a shred of decency when it comes to migrants. I had to force myself to keep reading.įar too many descriptions of dilapidated neighbourhoods, the dreary landscape, and bad bad food and/or lack of food for the detectives, gets old. Unfortunately the tag line says it all - "Silence hides the worst crimes" - the investigation goes nowhere for most of the book, as no one is talking. And there they discover the terrible damage done by a sin-sick soul.Loved the first few chapters of this book. To an area so desolate, so damned, the first mariners called it the land God gave to Cain. The journey takes them further and further from Three Pines, to the very mouth of the great St. A man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist, he would sell that soul. And deeper and deeper into the soul of Peter Morrow. Together with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey deeper and deeper into Québec. ![]() "There's power enough in Heaven," he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, "to cure a sin-sick soul." And then he gets up. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. While Gamache doesn't talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. ![]() "There is a balm in Gilead," his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, "to make the wounded whole." On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Louise Penny's The Long Way Home is an intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache Novel.
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