This book contains violent and/or sexual content.
AuthorLouise Penny
NarratorAdam Sims
SeriesInspector Gamache, Book 17
Duration16h 15m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
VersionUnabridged
The incredible new book in Louise Penny's number one best-selling Chief Inspector Gamache series. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is asked to provide crowd control at a statistics lecture given at the Université de l'Estrie in Quebec, he is dubious. Why ask the head of homicide to provide security for what sounds like a minor, even mundane lecture? But dangerous ideas about who deserves to live in order for society to thrive are rapidly gaining popularity, fuelled by the research of the eminent Professor Abigail Robinson. Yet for every person seduced by her theories, there is another who is horrified by them. When a murder is committed days after the lecture, it's clear that within crowds can lie madness. To uncover the truth, Gamache must put his own feelings about the divisive professor to one side. But with her ideas gaining ground, the line separating good and evil, right and wrong, is quickly blurring - especially when the case leads unexpectedly close to home....
Author: Louise Penny
Author Louise Penny
Narrator Adam Sims
SeriesInspector Gamache, Book 19
Duration 14h
Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in the small village of Three Pines in Quebec. Someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. When he finally answers the call, his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning. That's only the first in a s...
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Inspector Gamache Book 1: Still Life
Author: Louise Penny
Author Louise Penny
Narrator Adam Sims
SeriesInspector Gamache, Book 1
Duration 10h 39m
The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place s...
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Inspector Gamache Book 13: Glass Houses
Author: Louise Penny
Author Louise Penny
Narrator Adam Sims
SeriesInspector Gamache, Book 13
Duration 12h 11m
One cold November day, a mysterious figure appears on the village green in Three Pines, causing unease, alarm and confusion among everyone who sees it. Chief Superintendent Armand Gamache knows something is seriously wrong, but all he can do is watch and wait, hoping his worst fears are not realised. But when the figure disappears and a dead body i...
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Inspector Gamache Book 9: How the Light Gets In
Author: Louise Penny
Author Louise Penny
Narrator Adam Sims
SeriesInspector Gamache, Book 9
Duration 14h 56m
A detective. As a fierce, unrelenting winter grips Quebec, shadows are closing in on Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department and hostile forces are lining up against him. A disappearance. When Gamache receives a message about a mysterious case in Three Pines, he is compelled to investigate - a woman...
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Inspector Gamache Book 2: A Fatal Grace
Author: Louise Penny
Author Louise Penny
Narrator Adam Sims
SeriesInspector Gamache, Book 2
Duration 12h
Winter in Three Pines, and the sleepy village is carpeted in snow. It's a time of peace and goodwill - until a scream pierces the biting air. A spectator at the annual Boxing Day curling match has been fatally electrocuted. Despite the large crowd, there are no witnesses and - apparently - no clues. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache discovers a histor...
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Inspector Gamache Book 5: The Brutal Telling
Author: Louise Penny
Author Louise Penny
Narrator Adam Sims
SeriesInspector Gamache, Book 5
Duration 14h 17m
When Chief Inspector Gamache arrives in picturesque Three Pines, he steps into a village in chaos. A man has been found bludgeoned to death, and there is no sign of a weapon, a motive, or even the dead man's name. As Gamache and his colleagues start to dig under the skin of this peaceful haven for clues, they uncover a trail of stolen treasure, mys...
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Author: Louise Penny
Author Louise Penny
Narrator Adam Sims
SeriesInspector Gamache, Book 7
Duration 12h 9m
In the green depths of spring, morning breaks on a woman splayed in a bed of flowers - her eyes wide, her neck broken. Her death is a mystery; so is the woman herself. But as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team peer into the dark corners of the victim's past, they expose a secret that rots at the very heart of their community - a secret tha...
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Inspector Gamache Book 16: All the Devils Are Here
Author: Louise Penny
Author Louise Penny
Narrator Adam Sims
SeriesInspector Gamache, Book 16
Duration 13h 49m
On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather for a family dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. But the evening ends in horror when Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Armand is convinced is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on an elderly man's life. When a strange key is found in Stephen's p...
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Chief Inspector Gamache Book 11: The Nature of the Beast
Author: Louise Penny
Author Louise Penny
Narrator Adam Sims
SeriesInspector Gamache, Book 11
Duration 12h 50m
Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. His boundless sense of adventure and vivid imagination mean he has a tendency to concoct stories so extraordinary and so far-fetched that no one can possibly believe him. But when Laurent disappears, former Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is faced with the possibility that one...
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Inspector Gamache Book 15: A Better Man
Author: Louise Penny
Author Louise Penny
Narrator Adam Sims
SeriesInspector Gamache, Book 15
Duration 13h 34m
Gripping and full of suspense, A Better Man is the spellbinding new crime thriller from New York Times number one best seller Louise Penny. The air is unbearably tense as Armand Gamache returns to the Sûreté du Québec for his first day of work since being demoted from its command to head of homicide. Amid blistering personal soc...
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