![]() ![]() ![]() This mystery is a little different than the others in that there is no murder here, at least not an instigating killing. ![]() It’s obviously his second wind, and not one that he or his wife relish, yet the set-up for the future of the series is in the balance and the details being carved out, slowly, often forcibly, sometimes sloppily. Gamache was at first adrift and has now being seduced back into the investigative fold. The rest of the story, however, is still struggling to find its new balance. His heart has long been in the little village filled with delicious food and unique people. Moving Gamache to Three Pines is fairly seamless. Where then can the series go from here after such a neat conclusion, after nine books of steadily amplifying consequences and deepening complexities, all neatly resolved? The wounds are all still raw, but starting to stitch together. Even his second-in-command, Jean-Guy, has had a complete story arc and come out the other side of addiction and manipulation to a new hope. ![]() The long-running conspiracy at the Sûreté and over the Arnot case has finally been put to rest, the demons exercised, Gamache a battered but vindicated survivor. As the tenth book in the Gamache series, A Long Way Home attempts to reopen the narrative through a new lens. ![]()
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