I have only ever listened to this series up until this point. I read The Nature of the Beast, and while it didn’t come close to being a favourite, I also found that I missed having this series read to me. I then also purchased A Great Reckoning and Glass Houses as soon as they hit the store’s shelves. So, I went out and purchased the hardcover of The Nature of the Beast, the first to be read using some new narrator, at that time still unnamed. This great loss still has the power to move me to tears. He had this rich, buttery and grandfatherly tone of voice, and the way he gave wonderfully warm voices to the other characters in Three Pines (my most beloved would be Ruth and her duck – Cosham gave that duck a special and distinctive personality just as much as Gamache!) was so special, it would be so dearly and terribly missed. How could anyone possibly embody Armand Gamache the way Cosham did? Cosham was Gamache. After the passing of Ralph Cosham, Louise Penny’s dedicated narrator for her Gamache series (#1-10), I swore I wouldn’t be able to listen to this series in audio ever again.
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