The Long Way Home

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There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Both are writing about detectives and murder investigations, but in addition to the basic, virtually primal appeal of a good mystery, both add elegant prose and psychological depth.

Both, I think, also offer special appeal to women readers. He wants nothing more than to enjoy his family and friends in their idyllic village. In an early scene, Penny sketches the amenities of a gathering at Chez Gamache. Their house, made of white clapboard, has a wide veranda that faces the village green. Inside, a handsome bouquet proves to be mostly made of weeds: Soon, of course, the outer world intrudes on this paradise, thanks to their friend Clara Morrow.

Humor is liberally sprinkled along with mouthwatering descriptions of the frequent meals enjoyed by all. I soon felt like I was hanging out with good friends, having a great time, sitting around and shooting the breeze. This is a mystery novel, one written by you, crafty Louise Penny. So it is not long before dark undercurrents are felt. A sense of unease surface Oh Louise, you are a sly one. If it was as simple as pushing a button, are there any circumstances in which I could see myself reaching out and pressing down?

I wish Louise Penny and Donna Leon who also writes great mysteries studded with great descriptions of food would become best friends, and offer food tours of Montreal and Venice to which they invited loyal fans such as moi. May 05, Phrynne rated it really liked it Shelves: This is definitely not a book to read unless you have already read the preceding books and have come to know and love all the main characters.

Without that attachment to the people in the story I think things might prove very slow and perhaps a bit too technical. My knowledge of art is slim and I did not warm to the endless discussion of the meanings of paintings at all! However I was gripped by the comings and goings of all of our favourites. There was lots of Ruth which is always a plus. Oh and This is definitely not a book to read unless you have already read the preceding books and have come to know and love all the main characters. Oh and Rosa of course although she doesn't say very much.

Just one word really which I cannot include here: I was happy that Reine-Marie was allowed to play an individual role as we usually only see her as an attachment to Armand. The mystery was very mysterious indeed especially as no one knew who had done what to who until very near the end. And then what an unexpected ending!

I was left stunned and a bit sad too. Aug 29, Christina rated it liked it. I love Louise Penny's novels but I didn't think this one was as good as some of the others. The plot seemed thin because it lacked, I felt, the more layered plots of her previous novels.

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Since Gamache is retired we don't have the added tensions of his fight within the Surete while trying to solve a murder or the complications of the characters who work for him. I found Penny's writing style started to grate on me a bit: I also thought there was too much listing of food choices, witty banter and repetition of tiresome and, to my mind, somewhat silly themes, like the Tenth Muse.

At one point it is suggested the Tenth Muse represents inspiration for the visual arts but the other nine muses also represent inspiration for their respective disciplines. A small quibble, there are a couple of typos in book. Also, knowing the character of Clara it is hard to believe that the whole village or at least Myrna wasn't aware of her pact with Peter and wasn't asking her how's Peter, why isn't he back yet?

I still love the world of Three Pines and I am looking forward to the next one, maybe this one was just a lump in the throat? Nov 13, Margitte rated it liked it Shelves: A perfectly appropriate title! I am not sure why Clara's relationship with her husband, Peter, has been kept as one of the final moments of this series. While Three Pines are back in the picture, my honest impression was that the author ran out of steam. The tedious, extremely slow moving plot, encompassing the inner-workings of the art world, was presented more like a never-ending travel journal of a group of friends, promoting tourism in Canada.

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It lost me within the first ten chapters of the b A perfectly appropriate title! It lost me within the first ten chapters of the book. I couldn't help but jump-read most of the next chapters, which, for a devoted series-reader, were filled with never-ending repeats, repeats, repeats. The author introduces the theme of the book as follows: And, specifically, by memories of my travels along the glorious St. By the haunting coastline of the Lower North Shore.

And the villages and villagers there. I have traveled a lot in my life, as a journalist and as a private person, but I have never, ever met kindness so profound, and integrity so deep, as I did in kitchens and porches and front rooms along that coast. The village had the rhythm, the cadence, of a piece of music. The music of Three Pines. It was like a hum, a hymn, a comforting ritual. From the blurb "On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead , in his large hands.

It was as though he could not leave his father behind and therefor could not pass the bookmark. Clara was concerned about her husband who left the previous year as part of their agreement to a trial separation, and did not return on the decided anniversary date to discuss the future of their marriage.

She calls in Armand's help. They leave on a journey to follow Pete's trail and become entwined with the dark side of the art world. A philosophical journey becomes the focus of the tale. Chapters and chapters and chapters filled with it. And right at the end, as a sort of consolation, a murder is hastily thrown in and solved on the spot, to guarantee the murder mystery readers a thrill. The story is atmospheric, dramatic in the last few chapters , and filled with the results of vigorous research into the art world with the philosophies surrounding it.

The endless discussions simply just did not capture me! I was bored to death! Peter's journey to find himself, becomes Gamache's inner journey to find peace. Like with all the other books in the series, there is a dual purpose and multi-layered plot to vanish into.

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Well, now for the last book, no. I am going to make it my last book anyway. The ninth book in the series, How The Light Gets In , was definitely my favorite so far to conclude this entertaining, informative, thrilling series. The eight book, The Beautiful Mystery, was the highlight of the series, for me, at least. However, Louise Penny remains my all-time favorite murder mystery author. This series explored more than just the life of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. The reader experiences the full spectrum of humanity in all its ups and downs. What a journey for us all, and how colorful our memories will be.

It was indeed a long way home! I am still in love with Three Pines. The ending was sad, but beautiful. We have come full circle through lyrical prose. View all 4 comments. May 02, DL rated it it was ok. I'm not sure what has happened to this series. It's gone from being an engaging mystery series with a great deal of hidden insight to false insight being crammed in at every other line. This book made me tired. I finished it but without any pleasure.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and an ugly painting is ugly no matter how many hundreds of times you turn it over. View all 10 comments. Jun 18, Kathy rated it it was amazing Shelves: A Love Letter to Louise No Spoilers I want to thank you for yet another thrilling, engaging, thoughtful, and moving book. I found your prose so graceful certainly not breathy as one reviewer labeled it-Really, tsk tsk that on many occasions I stopped to re-read paragraphs, just for the sheer beauty of the work.

I was moved by the love you have for your country. It shines so brightly in this work. I only wish all readers could feel it as deeply as some of us do. Most of all, I wish I had the words to tell you how, as I have grown to know you, and know your characters, how lovingly you create their story and include us, your readers into your story-I appreciate it all. Thank you for sharing so much of yourself with us, Louise. This story of Gamache, and Clara, and Ruth all tied together so neatly, and yet, not.

You have created another brilliant storyline. And once again, given us a small glimpse into your heart as well. How brave you are.

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Feb 20, Dona rated it it was amazing Shelves: Hurry up August 26, ! Can't wait to read it. It's here and I'm starting it today. Can't wait to start it, but already hate that it will have to end. I finished reading it and was not disappointed. Now I have to wait for number 11 to be written and published.

I hope it's not too long of wait! View all 5 comments. The previous book in this series How the Light Gets In was such a good finale to Chief Inspector Armand Gamache's career as Quebec's Head of Homicide, ending with his retirement to the little village of Three Pines that he has come to love so much where he can start to recover his physical and mental health.

I couldn't imagine that a sequel featuring Gamache in retirement could be as good and postponed reading this book for a long time and unfortunately it does not live up to the rest of the ser The previous book in this series How the Light Gets In was such a good finale to Chief Inspector Armand Gamache's career as Quebec's Head of Homicide, ending with his retirement to the little village of Three Pines that he has come to love so much where he can start to recover his physical and mental health.

I couldn't imagine that a sequel featuring Gamache in retirement could be as good and postponed reading this book for a long time and unfortunately it does not live up to the rest of the series. The picturesque, perfect village of Three Pines where everyone is friendly and clever seems too good to be true, except that we know from previous books that there have been dark currents running through the town and everyone harbours a secret or something in their past they are not proud of.

In this novel, Clara the recently celebrated artist is distressed because her husband Peter, also an artist and jealous of her success, has failed to make contact as promised after 12 months of a trial separation. She asks Gamache to help her find her missing husband, roping in his former colleague and son-in-law Jean-Guy Beauvoir and her friend Myrna and so begins a journey to trace the missing Peter Morrow's wanderings over the last year.

While Louise penny's writing was as good as usual, sharp and often wry and the characters leap from the pages, the plot was slow to get going. The cosiness of Three Pines is almost cloying and I wanted Gamache to escape that and return to what he does best, hunting down criminals. Eventually he does escape in the closing chapters of the book and the plot starts to move at a good pace as Clara and Gamache start to close in on Peter and uncover a great crime committed years ago, but it was too late to save the book as a whole.

I will probably give this series another chance because it has been so brilliant up to now and read the next book, but I will be really disappointed if this series starts to turn out to be more cosy-crime than thriller. View all 8 comments. Jul 03, Barbara Hathaway rated it liked it. I had eagerly awaited this title but found myself disappointed and underwhelmed.

Penny delivered her usual beautifully descriptive prose but without the tightly woven plotting that usually makes her novels so compelling. The coincidences and artistic "insights"that advanced the plot felt forced and ludicrous at times. Apr 26, Barbara rated it it was ok Shelves: In this 10th book in the series, former police detective Armand Gamache helps search for a 'lost' husband. The book can be read as a standalone. Both Clara and Peter are artists, but Peter became jealous of his wife's increasing success and imp In this 10th book in the series, former police detective Armand Gamache helps search for a 'lost' husband.

Both Clara and Peter are artists, but Peter became jealous of his wife's increasing success and impossible to live with, so Clara asked him to leave for a year. After that time Peter was supposed to return so they could re-evaluate their marriage. Peter didn't come back or communicate in any fashion so Clara asks Gamache to help her find out what, if anything, happened to her husband. It's a promising beginning that doesn't pan out.

The story wanders much too far from a detective novel, being mostly a treatise on art and muses. Even visiting with familiar, well-liked characters was unsatisfying because they mostly just blabbed on and on about art. I like and appreciate art but I wanted to read a mystery, not an art book - and this book didn't deliver.

I don't recommend it. You can follow my reviews at https: View all 3 comments. Without giving too much away, Peter and Clara's relationship is examined; but along the way so is the art world in depth, Gamache himself, the nine muses of Greek mythology, and the best scenery to be found in Canada.

I always learn something from these books. The ending does open up the possibility for a change to come to Three Pines.

Not the best in the series, but I'm hooked. View all 9 comments. Long story short, I forgot to post a review about this book when I read it right after book 9. I was too irritated to do much besides be super aggravated by the nonsense going on in the Armand Gamache series and this latest was just more of the same it seemed to me. The story was way too long and drawn out for the terrible payoff we get in the end. I was wondering about reading the next book in the series, and a friend said she thinks I will like that much better, so I will.

But, I wanted to po Long story short, I forgot to post a review about this book when I read it right after book 9. But, I wanted to post my review of book 10 before I totally forgot about it. I still don't get why he and his wife relocated there after all of the insanity that seems to befall people in this village, but they do. Gamache goes to a bench everyday and reads a book until a certain point and seems to be waiting for someone or something to come along.

Eventually, the someone does come along, Clara Marrow finally talks to Gamache about the promise that she and her estranged husband Peter made back in "A Trick of the Light" when she finally realized that for all of the lip service he was making, Peter wanted to see her do badly.

The couple agrees to go their separate ways for a year, with Peter returning at the end of that year to see if they could move forward or not. Now it's more than a year and Clara believes that something truly awful had to have befallen Peter for him not to keep his promise. Gamache's wife is concerned about him being pulled back into anything resembling an investigation that will leave him injured after the events in "How the Light Gets In.

The reveal of what was going on with Peter was pretty much a letdown. Jean Guy is blissful as anything cause he finally has capture, er married Gamache's daughter. I have already said repeatedly I don't care a bit about this romance and that still holds true here. I ended up not liking Clara much throughout this book. She was aggressive and didn't listen one bit to what Gamache was saying. And honestly if she had listened, the events that transpired at the end of the book would not have occurred.

We do get to see Peter's messed up family a bit in this one, but I thought Penny did a disservice not showing them in the ending of the book. The writing was typical Penny, but honestly I was bored. I just didn't care to read the symbolism behind everything that Peter was doing. The insights that everyone had while looking at Peter's artwork and figuring out his cold trail made me laugh. I don't know if maybe Penny had included drawings of "Peter's work" or something that would have helped us readers see what everyone else was looking at.

But it's hard to read about what other characters are seeing when you don't see the artwork in question. I started skipping over stuff like that in this book just to get through this. I would think a look back at Clara and Peter's history and the art world in general would have been way more intriguing than this, but honestly after reading "A Trick of the Light" I just cannot anymore with the art world in Canada. I had a hard time with the overall mystery that was solved here and how Peter was worked into that plot. It didn't make a lot of sense and the villain reveal in this one was done really badly.

I liked what another reviewer said about this being a backwards mystery and honestly it was a backwards mystery. I wish that Penny had just decided to not loop in two mysteries for the price of one in this book since neither one of them were carried off very well.

The flow was not that great either. We have Clara, Mryna, Armand, and Jean Guy bouncing from location to location and meeting tertiary characters who I am sure will appear in future books. I just didn't care enough to pay that much attention to them. The setting of this one is a little bit of Three Pines and other locations. None of them really stayed with me at the end of this book. The ending was such a slap in the face though. I don't know how I feel about it besides cheated. I did feel like I wasted all of my time to just get this ending that pretty much thumbed its noses at the readers.

I would say that this book is pretty much filler and you can skim it to get the bare bones of the story and can skip to the next book in the series. View all 6 comments. Aug 26, LJ rated it it was amazing Shelves: There he is seeking peace and recovery from recent events. Clara and her husband Peter decided to separate for one year.

That year has now passed, but Peter has neither returned nor contacted Cla First Sentence: That year has now passed, but Peter has neither returned nor contacted Clara. The search for Peter sends Gamache, his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy, and other residents, to Montreal and into isolated regions of Quebec.

Louise Penny’s ‘The Long Way Home’ is an artful mystery featuring Armand Gamache

From the very first, we are as intrigued by the actions of one of the characters as are other characters in the story. We, too, want an explanation. It is particularly clear how close are Gamache and Reine-Marie, and how solid is their marriage. Yet only Penny could so effectively use a German Shepherd as a vehicle to convey loss and healing.

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