Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel is 10th and 11th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 9 |
SMOG Index | Grade 10 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 22 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 7 |
The estimated word count of The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 10) is 112,220 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 7 hrs 29 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 12 hrs 29 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 4 hrs 10 mins.
The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 10) - 112,220 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 12 hrs 29 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 7 hrs 29 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 4 hrs 10 mins |
for The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 10)
Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Surete du Quebec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he 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. Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. She wants Gamache's help to find him. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. "There's power enough in Heaven," he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, "to cure a sin-sick soul." And then he gets up. And joins her. Together with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey deeper and deeper into Quebec. And deeper and deeper into the soul of Peter Morrow. A man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist, he would sell that soul. And may have. The journey takes them further and further from Three Pines, to the very mouth of the great St. Lawrence river. To an area so desolate, so damned, the first mariners called it The land God gave to Cain. And there they discover the terrible damage done by a sin-sick soul. Read more