And there they discover the terrible damage done by a sin-sick soul. Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief. Lawrence river. To an area so desolate, so damned, the first mariners called it the land God gave to Cain. Until his neighbor seeks him out, when her artist husband fails to come home. The journey takes them further and further from Three Pines, to the very mouth of the great St. I have never physically read a single one because when I do, I hear Ralph’s voice in my head and it is not the same. He was a wonderful narrator who brought these stories to life. A man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist, he would sell that soul. The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Gamache 10) by Louise Penny This is the last book the late Ralph Cosham narrated. And deeper and deeper into the soul of Peter Morrow. Together with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey deeper and deeper into Québec. 'There's power enough in Heaven,' he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, 'to cure a sin-sick soul.' And then he gets up. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. While Gamache doesn't talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. 'There is a balm in Gilead,' his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, 'to make the wounded whole.' On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible.

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