How many authors can accomplish this? Even some of the bad are more than just that. In this book I ran through a gambit of emotions, fear, wonder, laughter and yes, one part even brought me to tears. There is friendship, love, caring and cunning, loyalty and a very smart, wonderful man in charge. The characters, I always wonder if I actually met Ruth if I would like her, and well all of them, all add something special. Louise Penny has such a winning combination in these books. Three Pines is featured prominently in this one, the characters, the church. There is a murder and a map, a new cadet with ties to Gamache. But why and what does he hope to accomplish there? Some of the most well known players from previous books return. Gamache accepts a job as the head of the Surete, the school where cadets train. I very seldom rate mysteries five stars but in this case it is well deserved. To say she has done it again is an understatement. Number-one New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerful truth in her latest spellbinding novel. The frantic search for answers takes the investigators back to Three Pines and a stained glass window with its own horrific secrets.įor both Amelia Choquet and Armand Gamache, the time has come for a great reckoning. The focus of the investigation soon turns to Gamache himself and his mysterious relationship with Amelia, and his possible involvement in the crime. Amelia is more likely to be found on the other side of a police line-up. And, with the body, a copy of the old, odd map.Įverywhere Gamache turns, he sees Amelia Choquet, one of the cadets. But must.Īnd there he finds four young cadets in the Sûreté academy, and a dead professor.

It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Sûreté du Québec to places even he is afraid to go. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. 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.

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