A Trick of the Light
by Louise Penny
Book 7 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series (2011)
Publisher: Minotaur
In the green depths of spring, morning breaks on a woman splayed in a bed of flowers – her eyes wide, her neck broken. Her death is a mystery; so is the woman herself.
Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, is called to the tiny Quebec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light.
As Gamache and his team peer into the dark corners of the victim’s past, they expose a secret that rots at the heart of their community – a secret that will implicate someone they’ve trusted for years. And as Gamache knows too well, in the flickering shadows of death, the truth may be just a trick of the light.