A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #12) [B1678]

2016 HCDJ, clean and fully legible, but with a REPAIRED BINDING. #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. 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 Quebec 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "Louise Penny's 12th entry in her series answers many questions about Armand's past, his family, and also answers many questions about Three Pines and why it does not exist on maps...except for the map discovered in this book. As always, many twists and turns until all falls into place."; "Louise Penny is such an engaging writer. l love the twists and turns and have become totally invested in what is happening in Three Pines"; "Awesome addition to the series. I liked that we got to dive deeper into the Surete drama, and I loved learning more about the history of Three Pines. This had everything I wanted in a Louise Penny book, though maybe less flashy and intense than other books in the series."