Louise Penny

A Trick of the Light

Detective: Armand Gamache
Time: Present
Setting: Three Pines, Quebec
Genre: Police Procedural

This is the seventh of Penny's Gamache Novels which, like some of the previous ones, is set in the imagined idyllic village of Three Pines (so small it's not even on the map) not far from Montreal.

The main plot involves the murder of a bitchy art critic in the garden of the home of an artist and her long time former friend during a party packed with artists after the artist's successful show preview.The investigation explores jealous rivalries in the art world an delves the victim's past relationship with a number of characters.

Much of the underlying story ARC harks back to the trauma that Gamache and his 2iC endured during a violent incident in an earlier novel but also devlops the charcters of many of the Three Pines' residents introduced in previous novels

Rating B+

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Previously Read Novels in the Series : Still Life (Gamache 1)