![]() ![]() Gamache fans will be thrilled by the way this installment unlocks some of the series’ enduring questions: Why is Three Pines off the grid? Why do we know so little about Gamache’s past? At the same time, the main plot offers a compelling mystery and a rich human drama in which no character is either entirely good or evil, and each is capable of inspiring empathy. ![]() Once again Penny displays her remarkable ability to serve equally well both series devotees and new readers (if there are any of those still to be found). ![]() So how does a copy of that map find its way to the bedside table of the murder victim? And does its presence further implicate Gamache? This time the hook is a map found in the walls of the local bistro-not just any map but a cartographic curiosity that may be the only map ever made of Three Pines. Naturally, Penny finds a way for her plot to curlicue back to Three Pines, the remote village where Gamache now lives and whose idiosyncratic denizens provide much of the series’ appeal. ![]() The inspector, of course, has a multilayered plan for ridding the school of its multiple malignancies, but before he can begin surgery, the chief offender is murdered, and Gamache himself becomes the leading suspect. The police school has become a seedbed for corruption, devoted to turning out bent cops. Chief Inspector Gamache has a new gig: he’s been appointed head of the Sûreté Academy du Québec and is tasked with cleaning house. ![]()
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