LONG WAY HOME, THE by Louise Penny - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
See all titles by Louise Penny.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. On
warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead,
in his large hands. “There is a balm in Gilead,” his neighbor Clara
Morrow reads from the dust jacket, “to make the wounded whole.”
While Gamache doesn’t talk about
his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. Peter, her artist
husband, has failed to come home. Failed to show up as promised on the
first anniversary of their separation. She wants Gamache’s help to find
him. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at
the thought of leaving Three Pines. “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. And joins her.
Together with his former
second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey
deeper and deeper into Québec. And deeper and deeper into the soul of
Peter Morrow. A man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist, he
would sell that soul. And may have. The journey takes them further and
further from Three Pines, to the very mouth of the great St. Lawrence
river. To an area so desolate, so damned, the first mariners called it
The land God gave to Cain. And there they discover the terrible damage
done by a sin-sick soul.