Excerpt from The Beautiful Mystery

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I have posted about the Inspector Gamache series before. It’s fun reading well-written mysteries that are based in Canada and around Canadian Culture. Louise Penny does not disappoint with The Beautiful Mystery, a murder mystery set in a fictional monastery in the wilds of Quebec.

A throat cleared.

In the great silence it sounded like a bomb. And to the abbot’s ears it sounded like what it was.

A challenge.

Louise Penny, The Beautiful Mystery

No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks have become world-famous for their glorious voices, raised in ancient chants whose effect on both singer and listener is so profound it is known as “the beautiful mystery.”

But when the renowned choir director is murdered, the lock on the monastery’s massive wooden door is drawn back to admit Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec. There they discover disquiet beneath the silence, discord in the apparent harmony. One of the brothers, in this life of prayer and contemplation, has been contemplating murder. As the peace of the monastery crumbles, Gamache is forced to confront some of his own demons, as well as those roaming the remote corridors. Before finding the killer, before restoring peace, the Chief must first consider the divine, the human, and the cracks in between.

10 thoughts on “Excerpt from The Beautiful Mystery”

  1. I’ve never read Louise Penny but, being a Canadian living right next door to Quebec, I suppose I should give it a go. Thanks for the recommendation. Here’s my link for this week’s intro/teaser from Kate Williams’ book, Becoming Queen: http://wp.me/p4DMf0-1wi

  2. I am hoping to read this one sometime! I’ve only read one of Louise Penny’s previous mysteries, but really enjoyed it, especially since I’m from Canada. 😉
    Thanks for visiting my Teaser today!

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