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The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
5.0

Armand Gamache has retired to Three Pines to rest and recuperate. Clara asks him to help her find her husband Peter. She sent him away a year ago when he was trying to sabotage her work by messing with her head. He was supposed to come back after a year for them to figure out where their relationship is. Armand with Jean-Guy traces Peter's movements from typical artists' spaces in Europe to a strange one in Scotland and finally back to Canada where he visited their alma mater. He seems to be chasing a former professor who espoused ideas about a tenth muse but who also ridiculed Clara and her work. They track him to a small village where the former professor had a commune. They meet a gallery owner who might be suspicious or might just be interested in Clara (she and Myrna insisted on coming).

Find No Man (Prof. Normand) and Massey (genial prof) killed Normand and his disciple Luc. He spots them and has Clara by knife point. In the struggle he stabs and kills Peter. Death scene had me in tears. Armand encourages gallery owner Chartbrand to visit Three Pines in a year to see Clara.

Love Ruth and how she and Reine-Marie helped out. Thought Ruth was interested in Massey, but really she was frightened by him because he was truly crazy.