Armand Gamache book 7 · 2011
A Trick of the Light
The morning after Clara Morrow’s triumphant art exhibition, a woman is found dead in her garden, a former friend Clara had not seen in years. Gamache and Beauvoir, both still carrying the damage of an earlier raid, look into Montreal’s art world and the hidden histories of Three Pines.
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Book facts
- Author
- Louise Penny
- Series
- Armand Gamache, book 7 of 21
- Published
- 2011
- Setting
- Set in the fictional Three Pines, Quebec
- Characters charted
- 11
- Chart confidence
- Medium
Who is in A Trick of the Light
11 recurring or key characters from Louise Penny’s chart.
Lead 1
- Armand GamacheChief Inspector of homicide, Sûreté du Québec
Major 7
- Jean-Guy BeauvoirGamache’s second-in-command, later his son-in-law
- Isabelle LacosteDetective, later head of homicide
- Clara MorrowArtist living in Three Pines
- Peter MorrowArtist and Clara’s husband
- Ruth ZardoElderly poet with a pet duck, Rosa
- Myrna LandersFormer psychologist who runs the bookshop
- Olivier BruléRuns the bistro with Gabri
Minor and cameo 3
- Reine-Marie GamacheArmand’s wife
- Annie GamacheArmand’s daughter, later Jean-Guy’s wife
- Gabri DubeauRuns the bed and breakfast with Olivier
Also featuring these characters
Other Louise Penny books that share the most characters with A Trick of the Light.
- A Rule Against Murder2008 · Armand Gamache · 11 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- The Long Way Home2014 · Armand Gamache · 11 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- The Brutal Telling2009 · Armand Gamache · 10 shared charactersBuy on Amazon
- How the Light Gets In2013 · Armand Gamache · 10 shared charactersBuy on Amazon