He told them about Sébastien Norman, another professor at the college who had taught there only one year. Massey struck them as being a kind man who seemed to genuinely love his students. Gamache and the others next tracked Peter to the Ontario College of Canadian Arts where he had gone to visit Paul Massey, one of Peter’s former art professors. Clara believed that Peter had first begun his own transformation there because they were able to identify the group of hares in one of his paintings. It was rumored that a group of hares visited the garden each night where the animals turned to stone and then transformed back to live animals. Working with a constable in Scotland, Gamache learned that Peter had painted one of his terrible works of art at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation. Peter had apparently not found what he was looking for there so he moved on. They traced his journey and discovered that he had visited LaPorte, a commune for children and adults with Down’s Syndrome, in France. The paintings were awful but showed that Peter was trying to paint art that evoked emotion instead of just following the rules of painting. Working with others from the village, Clara, Gamache, and Beauvoir located some paintings done by Peter and mailed to Bean, the child of Clara’s sister, presumably for safekeeping. In Quebec City he had taken $3,000 from his bank account and had seemingly disappeared. When he arrived in Canada he went first to Toronto and then to Quebec City. That had been four months before he was supposed to return to Clara. He discovered that Peter had gone to Paris, Venice, and then a small town in Scotland before returning to Canada. Beauvoir, who was still working for the police department, tracked Peter’s movements through the course of the past year using credit card records. Despite the dread he felt about getting involved in police work again, Gamache teamed up with Jean-Guy Beauvoir, his former colleague and currently his son-in-law. When Clara did finally tell Gamache that Peter had not shown up when he promised, she could see fear in his eyes and knew she was responsible for putting it there. What Gamache discovered was a twisted crime of jealousy and ambition of which Peter became a victim unwittingly.Ĭlara did not want to tell Gamache that Peter was missing because she did not want to interrupt the peace she knew he had come to Three Pines in search of.
Gamache feared the possibility he would have to investigate another homicide but knew that he would not be able to enjoy his peace is he was not able to demonstrate his bravery by taking on the case. His peace was shattered when Clara Morrow told him that her husband, Peter, had not returned when he had promised in order to discuss the possibility of giving their marriage a second chance. In The Long Way Home by Louise Penny, Armand Gamache, the former head of homicide, had come to the village of Three Pines to rest, heal, and find peace. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Penny, Louise.
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