The Long Way Home by Louise Penny (Book 10)
Despite her gothic prose, the new Louise Penny is also reliably gratifying. (I have forgiven Penny for her transgressions in The Beautiful Mystery.) In The Long Way Home, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec retires to the tiny village of Three Pines, the site of many of his previous cases. But when his friend Claire’s husband disappears, he reluctantly agrees to help her, enlisting the assistance of his former second- in-command and son-in-law, Jean-Guy Beauvoir.
(Why Gamache retires to the homicidally inclined community of Three Pines is the real mystery, but presumably Gamache in Florida would be even more puzzling!)
For more about Louise Penny and the Three Pines mystery series, check out Penny’s website.
The Three Pines novels in order of publication and good to not so good.
- Still Life
- A Fatal Grace
- The Cruelest Month
- A Rule Against Murder
- The Brutal Telling
- Bury Your Dead
- A Trick of the Light
- The Beautiful Mystery
- How the Light Gets In
- The Long Way Home
- The Nature of the Beast
- A Great Reckoning
- Glass Houses
- Kingdom of the Blind
- A Better Man
- All the Devils are Here
- The Madness of Crowds
- A World of Curiosities
- The Grey Wolf
- The Black Wolf (coming October 2025)