![]() “To lose him this way is the only way I could have got through it with equanimity. “It was so important to have that time,” she said. But losing it gradually, as she did, made it bearable. Her husband had been her muse, her first reader and her cheerleader - and all that would go. “Some people decide to close the door, deal with it in private. “It was Michael who said we need to tell people about this - our neighbours, our friends, the wider community. When they learned Whitehead’s dementia diagnosis, in 2013, the couple decided to go public. ![]() ![]() Her first Gamache book, Still Life, was published in 2005 the 15th, A Better Man, came out this year. She believed she had a novel in her - “and Michael said that, if I wanted to quit to write the book, he would support me.” A few months before their 1996 wedding, she left the CBC and, in 1999, they moved to the Townships. Whitehead was “gentle and kindly, the sort of person who would sit quietly in a room, having the best time,” she said. He had every right to believe that the best was behind him at 60. And you open the door one day - and there is the nicest man you have ever met. “You don’t know what life has in store,” she said. Penny, 25 years younger, was a journalist and broadcaster with the CBC she had never been married. Whitehead, a widower, was 60, a distinguished Montreal pediatric hematologist and scientist. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Louise lives in a small village south of Montréal. In 2017, she received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture. She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (six times), and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. LOUISE PENNY is the author of the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling series of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels ( Still Life, A Fatal Grace, and The Cruelest Month). With the deadly drug about to hit the streets, Gamache races for answers.Īs he uses increasingly audacious, even desperate, measures to retrieve the drug, Armand Gamache begins to see his own blind spots. And while most of the opioids he allowed to slip through his hands, in order to bring down the cartels, have been retrieved, there is one devastating exception.Įnough narcotic to kill thousands has disappeared into inner city Montreal. The investigation into what happened six months ago―the events that led to his suspension―has dragged on, into the dead of winter. When a body is found, the terms of the bizarre will suddenly seem less peculiar and far more menacing.īut it isn’t the only menace Gamache is facing. But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly sane? ![]() The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional. None of them had ever met the elderly woman. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder. When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. The new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
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