
There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge. But the head of homicide soon realizes there’s more in that room than meets the eye. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up.Īs the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Did their mother’s murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt?Īs Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. Gamache and Beauvoir’s memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge.Īs the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. But not everything buried should come alive again. It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. The Madness of Crowds: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #17) (Hardcover):Ĭhief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. Kingdom of the Blind: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):Ī Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):Īll the Devils Are Here: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #16) (Hardcover): Glass Houses: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #13) (Hardcover): The Nature of the Beast: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):Ī Great Reckoning: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #12) (Mass Market):


The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Hardcover): The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):īury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):Ī Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Hardcover):

The Cruelest Month: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):Ī Rule Against Murder: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback):Ī Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Paperback): This is book number 18 in the Chief Inspector Gamache Novel series.
