Summary

In Chapter 13, Gamache, Beauvoir, Clara, and Myrna discussed their findings, including Bean’s strange paintings, with other villagers over dinner. Ruth, a poet, and the town drunk, commented that most masterpieces were awful in the beginning stages. Ruth said that most of her poems started as “a lump in the throat” (109).

In Chapter 14, Clara took her breakfast to Peter’s studio where she studied the painting he had started before he left. She thought how different Bean’s paintings were from Peter’s. She dropped part of her breakfast as a realization hit her.

As Gamache sat on the bench and tried to read his book, he almost allowed himself to have a panic attack when he thought about the possibility that he might need to go back into police work. He concentrated on the reality of Three Pines and the sounds there...