A Trick of the Light - Audio Edition

    After having read all of Louise Penny’s six previous Chief Inspector Gamache stories to great acclaim actor/voice performer Ralph Cosham has literally become Gamache’s voice.  His narration is rendered in a rich baritone that perfectly suits the mental pictures we have of this character.  We totally agree with a comment found in AudioFile Magazine, “My only quibble is that the Penny-Cosham team kept me listening past my bedtime.”

    This series is always a pleasure as the author offers complex plots, psychological insights, and affecting characters that you feel you know.  As A Trick of the Light opens readers familiar with Bury Your Dead are reminded of the toll taken on not only Gamache but his deputy, Jean Guy Beauvoir.  Hopefully, life will return to normal giving wounds time to heal...that is not the case.  Just a day after their friend, Clara Morrow, has enjoyed the success of a show of her paintings a dead woman is found in Clara’s garden in the bucolic town of Three Pines.  The deceased is an art critic, Lillian Dyson; she has been murdered.

    Gamache and his team are sent to Three Pines to investigate the crime.  However as soon is one question is answered another arises.  As in her previous Gamache books Three Pines is filled with intriguing characters, and Penny gives each his due.  She’s an able author who skillfully mixes suspense, pathos and humor much to the delight of her fans.

    - Gail Cooke