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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series.#1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny returns with the eighteenth book in her beloved series featuring Armand Gamache and the denizens of the Quebec village Three Pines.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novelWhile the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro, the Chief Inspector’s holiday is interrupted by a simple request.He’s asked to provide security for a visiting professor’s lecture at the nearby university. It sounds easy enough, at least until Gamache starts looking into Prof. Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs them to cancel.They refuse and as Prof. Robinson’s views seep into conversations, discussions become debates, then fights. As sides are declared, a madness takes hold.When a murder is committed it falls to Gamache to investigate the crime as well as this extraordinary popular delusion.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novelWhile the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request.He’s asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event, a visiting professor's lecture at the nearby university.While he is perplexed as to why the head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec would be assigned this task, it sounds easy enough. That is until Gamache starts looking into Professor Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel.They refuse, citing academic freedom, and accuse Gamache of censorship and intellectual cowardice. Before long, Professor Robinson’s views start seeping into conversations, spreading and infecting until truth and fact, rea

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novelYou’re a coward.Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is

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“Enchanting…one of [Gamache’s] more ennobling missions.” ―Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewIt’s Chief Inspector Armand Gamache’s first day back on the job and flood waters are rising acro

Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the latest novel by #1 New Y

An instant New York Times Bestseller and August 2017 LibraryReads pick!“Penny’s absorbing, intricately plotted 13th Gamache novel proves she only gets better at pursuing dark truths with compassion an

An instant New York Times Bestseller and August 2017 LibraryReads pick!“Penny’s absorbing, intricately plotted 13th Gamache novel proves she only gets better at pursuing dark truths with compassion an

The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines for the fifth book in Louise Penny's #1 New York Times bestselling series.Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the

“Ms. Penny’s books mix some classic elements of the police procedural with a deep-delving psychology, as well as a sorrowful sense of the precarious nature of human goodness, and the persistence of it

It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache hascome not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wron

Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. As families prepare to head back to the city and children say goodbye to summer, a stranger is found murdered in the

It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But

Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is preparing for murder.No one liked CC de Poitie