Recovering from injuries in the village ofThree Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec,has found a peace he’d only imagined possible.
Until his friend Clara seeks him out, when her artist husband fails to come home.
Together with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, a group of the regulars goes on the road to solve the mystery of the disappearance.
There’s far less action than usual. More philosophy.
Though different than the usual Gamache fare, I still enjoyed the book.
A Great Reckoning (2016) is the 12th novel in the Inspector Gamache series. …
Well written and engaging.
As usual, a dumb and impossible-to-believe plot.
At the start of the novel, Gamache begins a new position as the head of the Sûreté Academy, where new cadets are trained for the police force.
Of course a murder mystery is presented. Ganache is one of many suspects.
More interesting to me was finally learning the history of the 3 pines in Three Pines. And finding out why the small village is not on any official Quebec maps.
There’s a film based on these books called “Still Life“.
Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as “Detective Galileo“, is speaking at a small coastal town on whether or not to approve an underwater mining operation.
The night after the tense panel discussion, one of the resort’s guests is found dead on the seashore at the base of the local cliffs. The local police at first believe it was a simple accident-that he wandered over the edge while walking on unfamiliar territory in the middle of the night. But when they discover that the victim was a former policeman and that the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning, they begin to suspect he was murdered, and his body tossed off the cliff to misdirect the police. …
I’d say Strawberry Moon is the best insight to Death Row I’ve ever seen.
The “Sparring Partners” Malloy brothers, Kirk and Rusty, two successful young lawyers who inherited a once prosperous firm when its founder, their father, was sent to prison.
During a houseboat vacation on the remote Lake of the Woods, a violent gale sweeps through unexpectedly, stranding Cork and his daughter, Jenny, on a devastated island where the wind has ushered in a force far darker and more deadly than any storm.
Amid the wreckage, Cork and Jenny discover the body of a teenage girl. She wasn’t killed by the storm, however; she’d been bound and tortured before she died. Nearby, underneath a tangle of branches, they also find a baby boy, hungry and dehydrated, but still very much alive. Powerful forces intent on securing the child pursue them to the isolated Northwest Angle …
Rick McCharles 