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A Great Reckoning: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, 12)

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Instant New York Times bestseller: 1 in Hardcover Fiction 1 in E-book Fiction 1 in Combined Print and E-book Fiction "Deep and grand and altogether extraordinary....Miraculous." ―The Washington Post "Artful...Powerful...Magical." - The New York Times Book Review "Superb" - People “A Great Reckoning succeeds on every level." ―St. Louis Post-Dispatch 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 Québec 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. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Minotaur Books


Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 2, 2017


Edition ‏ : ‎ Reprint


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 400 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250022118


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 10


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.55 x 1.05 x 8.25 inches


Book 12 of 20 ‏ : ‎ Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries


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    • oh, Ms Penny how do you know the depths of humans’ minds?
What an amazing story! It is very complex and amazingly written. So many characters with so many flaws and secrets.
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2025 by C. May
    • The best in the series so far, by far
By far the best in the series with multi layered sorrows and suspense ending on the redemptive note of hope through forgiveness.
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2025 by Binge Reader47
    • A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny: A review
Reading one of Louise Penny's Armand Gamache mysteries is like receiving a warm embrace from a much-loved old friend. It is comfort reading of the highest order. A Great Reckoning is the twelfth entry in the series. I've read them all - in order, of course. There are none of them that I haven't enjoyed, though some naturally are better than others, but this, in my opinion, is one of the best. Armand Gamache spent years as the head of homicide in the Sûreté du Québec, and during that time, he discovered that his agency was riddled with corruption. The venality of a powerful cadre within the Sûreté had created an atmosphere of cruelty and criminality that had cost it the trust and respect of the public. Gamache made it his crusade to clean up the agency and once again make it worthy of public trust. He accomplished his goal, but it almost cost him his life. He retired from the Sûreté and he and his wife went to live in the little village of Three Pines where he healed from his wounds and where he eventually became bored and began looking for something to do. He was offered several different jobs but the one that appealed to him was that of commandant of the Sûreté's academy. Realizing that his quest was not truly complete until the academy, too, was purged of bad actors and influences, he accepted the task, and in this book, we see him beginning that new role. His wife is happy that he will be working at the academy where she believes he will be safe. Little does she know! Gamache dismisses many of the academy's staff and hires new instructors, but, curiously, he leaves the most brutal and corrupt professor in place. He hopes to gather enough evidence on the man to finally put him away for good and, at the same time, identify the brains behind the operation, a person he believes is someone outside the Sûreté. But soon that corrupt professor is found dead in his room, a victim of a highly staged murder. Suspicion falls initially upon some of the cadets he had brutalized, but then comes to rest on Gamache himself. Meanwhile, back in Three Pines, the villagers, including Madame Gamache, are busy sorting through desiccated newspapers, catalogs, magazines, and other papers that were stuffed into the walls of what is now the bistro as insulation a century earlier. The papers were pulled out and saved during a renovation. How this endeavor somehow connects up with events at the academy is at the heart of this story of lost innocence - the innocence of the village's sons who marched off to war a century before and never came home and the betrayed innocence of academy cadets, some of whom seem at first glance not very innocent at all. As always with Penny's crime novels, this is very much a character-driven story. We get to know the characters with all their flaws and humanity and they engage our emotions so completely that we feel as though we could reach out and touch them. It is the complexities of the relationships that makes it all so real and that makes the reader eager to keep turning those pages to find out what will happen next. We are involved in the plot which Penny weaves together seamlessly. And at the center of all this is Armand Gamache, surely one of the most humane and human of policemen in all of crime fiction. He understands that kindness is not weakness and that love trumps hate. At the same time, he is implacable as he pursues the evil that pollutes his beloved Sûreté and that has infected the minds of some of the cadets who are the future of the agency. Then, of course, there are all the quirky Three Pines characters that we've come to know and love over the years: the cranky old poet, the bookstore owner, the gay couple who own and run the bistro, the acclaimed artist, and all the rest. Even the dogs. This is a story that is full of wisdom, forgiveness, kindness, and, yes, grief. It is an absorbing read and it is with regret that one turns that last page. The warm embrace ends and one must return to the cold reality of the world and all of its frustrations and irritations. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2016 by PlantBirdWoman
    • I say it every time, they just get better!
Every book is better than its predecessors. From the character development through the series, at this point I feel I know the village and each person in it. I cried at the baptism and I smiled at the realization by the end of who Amelia is… and at Gamache’s kindness. I love these books. I learn history as I get my fix with the mysteries, and appreciate the lack of gore. Thank you Louise Penny for producing such amazing literary works! Until next time, I’m FINE! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2025 by Michelle M. Newkirk
    • How does she do it?
Louise Penny continues to enthrall me with her exquisite plotting, characters I adore, lyrical writing and in A Great Reckoning, several times when I laughed out loud. Truly a gifted writer. I am grateful for her talent and the enjoyment I receive from it.
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2025 by Lucy Grace
    • excellent character development, intriguing
Love when reading a mystery and I cannot figure out the culprit easily. Louise penny has mastered this. Wondering if Amelia will continues with us in the next novel.
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2025 by Renee Woodward
    • Maybe: Ms. Penny’s best
Inspector Gamache’s has been revealed one book at a time and this one is the one that completes him. Amazing writing and character development. I hope there are real people like him in real life.
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2025 by Excellent. Exactly what I wanted.
    • Reckoning for us All?
Here we are again. Three books, in a row. I've never reviewed two books by an author, and now MS Penny has me down for four! Each one, actually since the first has been deeper, more complex, more involving to the reader than the one before: not just a police procedural nor a mystery within a procedural, but a time interval in the lives of Armand and Reine Marie and now extensive family and friends. Originally, our point of care and concern was Chief Inspecteur of the Sûreté, Armand Gamâche, and book by book our knowledge, respect, affection, and yes, love has extended ever outward to his children, his beloved assistants, Jean Guy and Isabelle, his new friends and neighbors in Trois Pins where we KNEW he would find Sanctuary and healing, as would we. His life is now part of ours. Personally, one of the very best aspects of reading this series is MS Penny has allowed Armand not to be perfect. She has allowed us and him to learn forgiveness. That is spectacular in a hero - to be broken and mended. Side note: of course Reine Marie is perfect, but then how else would Armand learn it is human and normal to make mistakes? No, seriously, a strong loving supportive partner makes forgiveness, reparation and return to conscious repair of one's life possible. All this boils down to: read this series! You are going to get so much more out of each and every book than you ever dreamed, they are really really good, deep and thoughtful and MS Louise Penny will be the best author and friend you never met. I promise. You know me (a little bit) and I don't make promises easily. I'm an old style Texan, the daughter of a son of a Baptist minister who couldn't say a bad word about anybody, and didn't, and kept every promise he ever made. Well, I CAN say bad words about everybody, but I DO keep my promises, I reckon. Be good to yourselves and learn something important from MS Penny. Her road goes somewhere not on any map, but worth finding. P.S. I just found out today after this was posted that Ms. Penny's husband Michael has passed away. I would like those for us who feel our lives have been so enriched by her to send some support and kindness back to her for all she has given us to stretch our minds and hearts. Ms. Louise, you are an extraordinary woman, I'm certain in part because of the love and life you shared with the fine man you described as your husband and your boys. You have given us some of that through your books, so we will give back to you any way you wish, but certainly by enjoyment and purchase and loyalty of your books. Take care as we care. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2023 by chancytejana

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