The Long Way Home (45 page)
Beside him Henri slept, the ball in his mouth and his tongue lolling.
Snoring slightly.
And in Armand’s hands was the book, closed on his lap.
Clara joined him on the bench. They sat in silence, side by side. Then Clara leaned back, her body touching the words someone had freshly carved into the wood. Above
Surprised by Joy.
A Brave Man in a Brave Country
She looked out, across to the mountains and the world beyond. And then her eyes returned, as they always would, to the calm little village in the valley.
Beside her on the bench Armand opened
The Balm in Gilead
to the bookmark, took a deep breath, and started forward.
Clara held the letter in her hand. From Peter. That had finally found its way to Three Pines.
And she opened it.
ALSO BY LOUISE PENNY
How the Light Gets In
The Beautiful Mystery
A Trick of the Light
Bury Your Dead
The Brutal Telling
A Rule Against Murder
The Cruelest Month
A Fatal Grace
Still Life
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LOUISE PENNY
is the #1
New York Times
and
Globe and Mail
bestselling author of nine previous Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (five times), and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. She lives in a small village south of Montréal. Visit her on Facebook or at
www.LouisePenny.com
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE LONG WAY HOME.
Copyright © 2014 by Three Pines Creations, Inc. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Excerpts from “Cressida To Trolius: A Gift” and “Sekhmet, the Lion-Headed Goddess of War” from
Morning in the Burned House: New Poems
by Margaret Atwood. Copyright © 1995. Published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company in the United States. Used with permission of the author and her publishers (in their respective territories) and the author’s agent, Curtis Brown Group Ltd., London, acting on behalf of Margaret Atwood. All rights reserved.
Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein
Cover printing of
Evening on the North Shore
by Clarence Gagnon
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The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.
ISBN 978-1-250-02206-6 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-250-02207-3 (e-book)
e-ISBN 9781250022073
First Edition: September 2014