As usual, there are multiple side mysteries going on along side the primary storyline, and as usual, they may or may not be related to the main storyline.

One big question left open at the end of the previous book, The Nature of the Beast, is answered early on in A Great Reckoning - we learn what job will take Gamache out of retirement, but not out of Three Pines. There are very few series I stick with beyond the first 3 or 4 books and the fact that I was so excited to read the 12th entry says something about these books. This is the 12th in Penny's Inspector Gamache series, so the characters are now all old friends. This is one of the two books I have been eagerly awaiting this year. You'll love your stay in Three Pines.' – AudioFile Magazine 'Robert Bathurst puts his own indelible stamp on Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in Louise Penny's twelfth Three Pines puzzle.If you haven't listened to this series, start at once. #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. 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.

A great reckoning by louise penny