A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4)

by Louise Penny

To live in chaos was to live in a prison. Order freed the mind for other things.

But then cooking was an intimate act. An act of artistry and creation.

He was an adult, she realized. Not a child in adult’s clothing, like so many people she knew.

Peter wondered at this man who’d lived every nightmare and was happy while Peter had every privilege and wasn’t.