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Violence
Some
A death; some thriller danger in the investigation
Language
Barely any
Mild language in Louise Penny's warm-but-sharp procedural register
Sexual Content
None
No romantic or sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking in a beloved bistro setting
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific grief of a marriage that ended badly, and the question of whether it can be repaired; a detective seeking rest in a village that keeps finding him
What this book is about
Armand Gamache has retired to the village of Three Pines, seeking peace after the events of How the Light Gets In. But his neighbor Clara Morrow — the painter — arrives one morning with an impossible request: her husband Peter, also an artist and also her rival, has been missing for a year. She wants Gamache to find him. The search takes them from Quebec to Scotland to an artist's colony in Provence. Louise Penny's tenth Inspector Gamache novel is about marriage and ambition and what it means to realize too late what you had. Quieter than the series is at its most intense, and richer for it.
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best read after earlier Gamache novels
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