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A rule against murder / Louise Penny.
In this classic drawing room mystery, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is looking forward to celebrating his wedding anniversary at the remote, luxurious Manoir Bellechasse. As Gamache's holiday becomes a busman's anniversary, he learns that the seemingly peaceful lodge is a place where visitors come to escape their past, until that past catches up with them.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780312614164 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: x, 322 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, [2008]
- Copyright: ©2008
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Previously published under title: The murder stone. London : Headline, 2008. "A Chief Inspector Gamache novel". |
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| Subject: | Police > Québec (Province) > Fiction. Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Resorts > Fiction. Québec (Province) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache makes a wedding anniversary trip to luxurious Menoir Bellechasse, he finds his plans interrupted by his fellow guests as well as old secrets that serve as a prelude to murder. - McMillan Palgrave
<p><b><i>A Rule Against Murder,</i> the fourth book in Louise Penny's award-winning and critical revered mystery series features the wise and beleaguered Inspector Armand Gamache. </b><br><br> It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But they're not alone. The Finney familyârich, cultured, and respectableâhas also arrived for a celebration of their own.<br><br> The beautiful Manoir Bellechasse might be surrounded by nature, but there is something unnatural looming. As the heat rises and the humidity closes in, some surprising guests turn up at the family reunion, and a terrible summer storm leaves behind a dead body. It is up to Chief Inspector Gamache to unearth secrets long buried and hatreds hidden behind polite smiles. The chase takes him to Three Pines, into the dark corners of his own life, and finally to a harrowing climax.</p>
