A Trick of the Light - Couverture rigide

Penny, Louise

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1410441075 ISBN 13 : 9781410441072

Editeur : Thorndike Press, 2011

Synopsis

""Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie [but] it sells her short. Her characters are too rich, her grasp of nuance and human psychology too firm...." --"Booklist "(starred review)
""Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead."
But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara's solo show at the famed Musee in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Surete du Quebec, 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. Where nothing is as it seems. Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart. And even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to Gamache and his team if what they've found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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. But as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team peer into the dark corners of the victim's past, they expose a secret that rots at the very 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.

Revue de presse

'Deceptively charming... delivering acute insights into the complicated motives of complex characters' --New York Times Book Review

'Like P. D. James, Penny shows how the tight structure of the classical mystery story can accommodate a wealth of deeply felt emotions and interpersonal drama....Top of the genre' --Booklist

'Stellar....With her smart plot and fascinating, nuanced characters, Penny proves again that she is one of our finest writers' --People

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thorndike Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1410441075
• ISBN 13: 9781410441072
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 615
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible