Inna

“They [his in-laws] had even kidded that it should be easy for him [to find hidden chocolate Easter Eggs] since he was an investigator, after all. He thought the easiest way would be to simply to put his gun to his father-in law’s head and force him to say where the % eggs were.”
― Louise Penny, Chief Inspector Gamache #1-4

“Jean Guy Beauvoir was loosely wrapped but tightly wound.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

“At Christmas homes were full of the people there and the people not there.”
― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

“His deep brown eyes lingered on her liver-spotted brown hands. Rough, tanned hands that had known seasons in a garden. No rings on her fingers, or sign there had ever been. He always felt a pang when looking at the hands of the newly dead, imagining all the objects and people those hands had held. The food, the faces, the doorknobs. All the gestures they’d made to signal delight or sorrow. And the final gesture, surely, to ward off the blow that would kill. The most poignant were the hands of young people who would never absently brush a lock of gray hair from their own eyes.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life