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Title:

A better man

Author:

Penny, Louise, author.

Series:

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache ;

Series Number:

15.

Summary:

It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father.

Edition:

Large print edition.

Physical Description:

695 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Genre:

Large type books.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Subject Term:

Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.

Police -- Fiction.

Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.

Missing persons -- Fiction.

Floods -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Québec (Province) -- Fiction.

Publisher:

Thorndike Press,

Publication Date:

2019

ISBN:

9781432867805

Publication Information:

Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, 2019.

Call Number:

LP PENNY

Holds: Copies:

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A #1 New York Times Bestselling AuthorA Chief Inspector Gamache NovelChief Inspector Armand Gamache is back as head of the homicide department, just as flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil, a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache realizes the search should be abandoned, but with a daughter of his own, he empathizes with the distraught father. As the rivers rise and Gamache faces a social media onslaught, a body is discovered. And in the tumult, mistakes are made. Gamache must face a horrific possibility and a burning question: what would you do if your child's killer walked free?

Author Notes

Louise Penny was born in Toronto, Canada in 1958. She earned a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Radio and Television) from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University) in 1979. Before she turned to writing mystery novels in 2004, she was a journalist and radio host for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in various cities across Canada for 25 years. She writes the Chief Inspector Gamache Novel series. She has won numerous awards including the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards for Still Life and the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel for A Fatal Grace.

Louise's title, The Long Way Home, made the Hot Mystery Title's List for Summer 2014. Her titles The Nature of the Beast made The New York Times best seller list in 2015 and A Great Reckoning made The New York Times best seller list in 2016.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

Bestseller Penny's wrenching 15th novel featuring Chief Insp. Armand Gamache (after 2018's Kingdom of the Blind) finds Gamache, former chief superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, returning to work after a nine-month suspension and demotion, and reporting to his own his son-in-law and one-time protégé, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. When the body of Vivienne Godin, 25 and pregnant, is found in a river near Three Pines, trapped in the debris of a violent spring flood, Gamache and Beauvoir are sure that she was killed by her drunken, abusive, supremely unlikable husband, Carl Tracey. But knowing who did it and proving it are two different things. After an exhaustive investigation, the detectives build a convincing circumstantial case against Tracey. But a shocking twist forces Gamache to look at the evidence anew. With an uncompromising eye, Penny explores the depths of human emotion, both horrifying and sublime. Her love for her characters and for the mystical village of Three Pines is apparent on every page. Agent: Teresa Chris, Teresa Chris Literary. (Aug.)

Library Journal Review

After Kingdom of the Blind), CI Armand Gamache returns to the position where he first began and to the place he has come to call home in order to solve a missing persons-turned-murder case, avert the rising floodwaters of Canada's St. Lawrence River, and say goodbye to his son-in-law, who is both a dear friend and longtime second-in-command. In their final case together, Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir search for the hidden truths behind what seems to be a cut-and-dried case and screwed-up investigation while battling the demons rising in both the upper echelons of the Sûreté du Québec and in hearts too wrapped up in the how of this murder to figure out the why--until it's nearly too late. VERDICT This title brings several character arcs to a close while resetting others to make this psychological mystery serve both as a beginning for new readers and a satisfying continuation for series fans. Gamache is an explorer of the human psyche, and the care he takes with the victims, their friends and family, as well as his own allows this series and his character continually to surprise, delight, and enthrall. Highly recommended for lovers of psychological, character-driven mysteries. [See Prepub Alert, 2/25/19.]--Marlene Harris, Reading Reality, LLC, Duluth, GA