The Nature of the Beast: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (51 page)

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Authors: Louise Penny

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The Cruelest Month

A Fatal Grace

Still Life

 

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Author’s Note

About the Author

Also by Louise Penny

Copyright

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

THE NATURE OF THE BEAST.
Copyright © 2015 by Three Pines Creations, Inc. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Excerpts from “A Sad Child” and “Waiting” from
Morning in the Burned House: New Poems
by Margaret Atwood. Copyright © 1995. Published by McClelland & Stewart in Canada, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company in the United States. Used with permission of the author and her publishers (in their respective territories) and the author’s agent, Curtis Brown Group Ltd., London, acting on behalf of Margaret Atwood. All rights reserved.

Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein

Cover photograph by Ian Christopher Piggott

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The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

ISBN 978-1-250-02208-0 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-250-02209-7 (e-book)

e-ISBN 9781250022097

First Edition: September 2015

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