The only one left and the immensity of the betrayals that were heaped upon the woman and her family are overwhelming.

The series-long conflict that has been messing up Gamache’s life gains power and then there’s the case of the murdered woman. It’s a binding that isn’t always positive, as Penny points out in Matthew 10:36 with its warning that “a man’s enemies will be the members of his household”. There are families bound by blood while others are bound by a common goal or a similar outlook. It’s a story within a story about family. In 2014, How the Light Gets In won the Left Coast Crime Award for Calamari and was nominated in 2013 for the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel and the Goodreads Choice Award.

Ninth in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache mystery series set in Montreal and revolving around the inspector, his family, and his coworkers. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Still Life, A Fatal Grace, A Rule Against Murder, The Cruelest Month, The Brutal Telling, Bury Your Dead, The Hangman, A Trick of the Light, The Beautiful Mystery, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast, A Great Reckoning, Kingdom of the Blind, A Better Man, All The Devils are Here It is part of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #9 series and is a mystery in Hardcover edition that was published by Minotaur Books on Augand has 405 pages.

This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review.

How the lights get in louise penny