A New York Times Bestseller A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a balm in Gilead," his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, "to make the wounded whole." While Gamache doesn''t talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home.