A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

by Louise Penny

There

While Jean-Guy Beauvoir explored the tangible, what could be touched, Armand Gamache explored what was felt. He went into that chaotic territory. Hunting. Searching. Tracking. Immersing himself in emotions until he found one so rancid it led to a killer. Beauvoir stopped at the door. Gamache went through it.

Homer stared, in a pose so contained, so dignified, so stoic it both amazed Gamache and bruised his heart.

Every fiber in his body wanted to run into the woods. He could feel the others straining to do the same thing. But he remembered the Chief’s advice. Think. Take a breath. Take a moment. Just a moment. To think. So now, almost vibrating with the need to act,