#1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerful truth in her latest spellbinding novel.
Chief Inspector Gamache #12
Minotaur Books
May 2017
On Sale: May 2, 2017
400 pages ISBN: 1250022118 EAN: 9781250022110 Kindle: B01BBXF0HC Trade Size / e-Book Add to Wish List
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.