A Trick of the Light - Louise Penny [152]
And in her weary eyes there was a tiny dot. A glint, a gleam.
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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.
A TRICK OF THE LIGHT. Copyright © 2011 by Three Pines Creations, Inc. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Excerpt from “Up” from Morning in the Burned House 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.
Excerpts from page 82 of the book Alcoholics Anonymous, copyright 1939, is used by kind permission of AA World Services.
“Not Waving But Drowning” by Stevie Smith from Collected Poems of Stevie Smith, copyright 1957 by Stevie Smith. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Penny, Louise.
A trick of the light : a Chief Inspector Gamache novel / Louise Penny. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-312-65545-7
1. Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Police—Québec (Province)—Fiction. 3. Québec (Province)—Fiction. 4. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9199.4.P464T75 2011b
813'.6—dc22
2011020256
First Edition: September 2011
eISBN 978-1-4299-7289-5
First Minotaur Books eBook Edition: August 2011
Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
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Copyright
Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Also by Louise Penny
Copyright