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~ Winner of the Lefty Award for Best World Mystery - 2016

The Nature of the Beast: A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery

Chief Inspector Gamache has retired from the force amid corruption within the department when he is summoned by Clara Morrow, whose husband has mysteriously gone missing . . .  

The eleventh installment in bestselling Canadian author Louise Penny's 'Chief Inspector Armand Gamache' series, The Long Way Home features the strong sense of place (Quebec), third person omniscient narrator, and lovingly crafted portraits of people in a small town that Penny is renowned for showing that no place and no person is without fears and flaws. 

“Penny sustains her high-wire act, creating characters of remarkable depth in an exhilarating whodunit.” -- People