A powerful debut from an Australian novelist that features one of the most likeable but contrary figures you are likely to meet in contemporary fiction. Lou Connor, a gifted, unhappy sixteen-year-old, is desperate to escape her life of poverty in Sydney. When she is offered an exchange student place
How the light gets in
β Scribed by Louise Penny
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press;Minotaur Books
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 255 KB
- Edition
- First Minotaur books paperback edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1250047277
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β¦ Synopsis
The #1 New York Times Best Seller
_"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." --_Leonard Cohen
Christmas is approaching, and in Quebec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department, his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasn't spoken to him in months, and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message from Myrna Landers that a longtime friend has failed to arrive for Christmas in the village of Three Pines, he welcomes the chance to get away from the city. Mystified by Myrna's reluctance to reveal her friend's name, Gamache soon discovers the missing woman was once one of the most famous people not just in North America, but in the world, and now goes unrecognized by...
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