When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes.
Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Sûreté du Québec to places even he is afraid to go. But must.
And there he finds four young cadets in the Sûreté academy, and a dead professor. And, with the body, a copy of the old, odd map.
Everywhere Gamache turns, he sees Amelia Choquet, one of the cadets. Tattooed and pierced. Guarded and angry. Amelia is more likely to be found on the other side of a police line-up. And yet she is in the academy. A protégée of the murdered professor.
The focus of the investigation soon turns to Gamache himself and his mysterious relationship with Amelia, and his possible involvement in the crime. The frantic search for answers takes the investigators back to Three Pines and a stained glass window with its own horrific secrets.
For both Amelia Choquet and Armand Gamache, the time has come for a great reckoning.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerful truth in her latest spellbinding audiobook.
Book #12: “Service, Integrity, Justice” Book #12 opens with Armand Gamache ready to step out of retirement, but not back into the Sûreté du Québec, at least not directly. Gamache’s new position will involve the training of the next generation of Sûreté officers, and weeding out the detritus left by years of corruption and mismanagement. The transition is a troubled one, and there is a murder.Â
Orient your way to buy this book! This is the 12th..12th! installment in the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny. Her works are such a pleasure to read, her talent to convey emotion and set up a mystery make this a page turner. Inspector Gamache has come out of retirement to take charge of the Surete academy. In the last novel we found out that the corruption Gamache exposed within the Surete has deeper roots which begin with cadet training at the academy.Â
Gamache at his finest Fans of Louise Penny stand up and cheer! A Great Reckoning is everything you love about Penny’s novels: smart, built on relationships, the Three Pine family and Gamache at his very best. Don’t let the leisurely pace of the first seven chapters fool you into thinking this book won’t grip you by the throat. Remember every word carries import in Penny’s writing. Best pay attention to those begining details before the story rockets off in chapter seven.Â