The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #5) [B1673]

2009 HCDJ in nice clean condition. The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in The Brutal Telling, the fifth book in Louise Penny's #1 New York Times bestselling series. Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier's Bistro-including a stranger whose murdered body is found on the floor. When Chief Inspector Gamache is called to investigate, he is dismayed to discover that Olivier's story is full of holes. Why are his fingerprints all over the cabin that's uncovered deep in the wilderness, with priceless antiques and the dead man's blood? And what other secrets and layers of lies are buried in the seemingly idyllic village?

Gamache follows a trail of clues and treasures-from first editions of Charlotte's Web and Jane Eyre to a spiderweb with a word mysteriously woven in it-into the woods and across the continent, before returning to Three Pines to confront the truth and the final, brutal telling.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "A perfectly written murder mystery wrapped up with a bow at the end."; "I was quite surprised by the ending. A page turner, as I am working my way through the Chief Inspector Gamache series after reading later books first."; "This one gave insight to the native peoples, which was interesting after twice visiting the Anchorage Museum with its tremendous exhibits of northern native peoples."; "I am SO hooked on this series!!"