"Robert Bathurst performs this 18th Inspector Gamache mystery with the assurance of one who knows the village of Three Pines and its (mostly) gentle residents well....fans are in for a treat."—AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner)

"Robert Bathurst's narration is calm, collected, and earnest, reflecting the blend of emotion and professionalism that Gamache embodies as an investigator. It's perfect for listeners seeking both captivating intrigue and insightful reflection."—BookPage

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series.

It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge.

But something has.

As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines.

But to what end?

Gamache and Beauvoir’s memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother’s murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt?

As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up.

As the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there’s more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge.

In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache’s home.

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13 hours and 15 minutes
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Louise Penny
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Robert Bathurst
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Nov. 29 2022
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Listening Length	13 hours and 15 minutes
Author	Louise Penny
Narrator	Robert Bathurst
Audible.ca Release Date	November 29 2022
Publisher	Macmillan Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B09ZBKBRF9
Best Sellers Rank	#71 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #1 in International Mystery & Crime (Audible Books & Originals) #2 in Police Procedural Mysteries #2 in Traditional Detective Mysteries

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Suzanne L. Mcgee

When evil comes to Three Pines

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 14, 2023

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No one will be quite the same once it's exorcised. My heart finally stopped racing and the hairs on my arms and neck are back where they should be. We all have things buried so deep we hope we'll never have to bring out. Armand had to dig deep to root out the hate that lived deeply buried in his heart in order to save his family. Hate, the evil that killed those young women on that terrible Dec day, is the main character in this story. We saw first hand what it can do and I hope we'll never forget or have it repeated.
This is like a giant puzzle, each small piece meaningless on it's own but so frightening as a whole. The use of the Paston Treasure painting was pure genious. So many small details makes this story one of the best yet in my opinion.

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A complicated twisty story with Inspector Gamache and his gang eventually showing the way

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 10, 2023

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Louise Penny is only getting better and better as the years go on. This latest Inspector Gamache/Three Pines story has all the elements I love about this series. Starting with the intrepid and clever Inspector Gamache and his 2IC, Jean Guy Beauvoir explaining their beginnings as the team of prime solvers of the most dramatic of murders for the Surete de Quebec. In other words, Beauvoir's Watson to Gamache's Holmes. Then we move into the present danger and a series of murders in Three Pines, tied to a previous case from years before. I promise no more information, you must read it for yourself and have the wonderful experience of another book in this great series. Once more I wait for Louise Penny to finish her next book to get my fix.

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B Gray

Remarkable

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 3, 2023

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This is a great read, and one which should be treasured by fans of Louise Penny’s Gamache. There are holes and flaws, but it’s read-all-night thrilling.
I would not recommend it for readers as an introduction to the series. It’s serves as a capstone for the previous 17 Gamache stories, not by way of tying up all the stories, but because to truly appreciate all the nuance, one needs to know the characters and their own stories well.
Reading it made me appreciate what’s lacking in the new Three Pines tv series, which is good in its own right, but a very different experience. The tv series nails Gamache as a character, I think, but it’s way too dark for me. The other regular characters, and the beloved community itself, suffer because of it. Why is it so dark? No humour, and no food! Nothing to leaven the horror of murder. A World of Curiosities is terrifying, yet there are plenty of smiles along the way.

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Barbara McLauchlin

Louise Penny keeps getting better.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 17, 2023

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Penny's deep awareness of the human spirit and darkness brings a deeper understanding of how we all are in our worlds. The people of Three Pines still welcoming and warm (badly interpreted in Three Pines the movie on Prime, themselves give us a sense of how belonging and acceptance buffer eveil, despair, loneliness and willful injustices.

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Gail Tamburri

Coming Home to Three Pines

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 6, 2023

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Louise Penny’s magical village is for me me, going home to be with family and friends. With each new addition to her legacy I settle into a joyful reunion. Please keep them coming even though I swear I put on a few pounds every time I join Myrna’s pot luck dinners. I believe one of the first ones had a a floral centrepiece in which George Clooney was hiding.

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S. Mckenzie

Maybe Louise Penny's best so far

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 30, 2022

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Puzzles within puzzles within puzzles. Nothing is as it seems, and nothing is seen as it is. I can't go further into describing the plot(s) of this damnably complicated book for fear that I inadvertently give away some critical element, or add to the confusion by misrelating a detail. It is, in my opinion, both the most frustrating and the best of all of Louise Penny's Three Pines novels. Read it, but if at all possible save it for a time when you have no obligations to do anything else for two or three days.

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Shawna

She’s done it again

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 30, 2022

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Penny’s beautiful prose takes back to the village of Three Pines. She delights us with her familiar charming characters and gives us some origin story for the relationship between Gamache and Beauvoir. The mysteries within this book are good. But what I love best is how the characters grow in each book as Penny understands them better and reveals more. I also love the themes of love and kindness that run through her books; this is no exception.

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Vivian

Thoroughly enjoyable

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 28, 2022

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I loved this latest book in the Armand Gamache murder mystery series. This was Louise Penny at her best. I could not put the book down, the writing style was outstandingly engaging and the plot was very intriguing. The characters were wonderful and incredibly relatable. I feel like I know everyone in Three Pines and would love to meet them some day..... The only disadvantage is that I now have to wait for the next book to come out!!

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LeaC

Dark and complex

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 28, 2022

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Absolutely brilliant, in my opinion. It’s always a little disappointing when a Gamache book is finished and you have to wait for the next one. I’ve read them all now since finding the first in my local library. Now I look forward to each new instalment. This book is certainly a darker one with the tale of the drug addict prostitute who pimps out her own children until they crack and brutally murder her and the real life mass slaughter of innocent women by a misogynist. Plus Sam is such a loathsome character that I couldn’t enjoy reading about because he is so slimy and manipulative. But it is such a wonderfully complex story with so many threads that somehow manage to all tie in, instead of unraveling into a mess, that you can’t help but marvel at the skill Louise Penny displays here. It really kept me guessing right to the end. I look forward to our next visit to Three Pines.

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Annik Lamotte

Another winner

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 2, 2022

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Louise Penny is one of my very favourite authors and I devour each book the moment it comes out. I read this one in about a day and a half, only stopping to do such vital things as cooking and sleeping! It was superb as always. I love being transported to Canada and Three Pines in particular and to enter into Louise Penny's very special world.

Gamache is a wonderful character and I always bear in mind that he is based on her late husband. Jean-Guy is a perfect foil, though there are times when I could give him a good shake - which, of course, is the point. Thank you, Louise, for your emailed newsletters and your excellent books. Please sit down and write the next one!

J. Domin

Wow! These books really are in a league of their own.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 2, 2023

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At the beginning there was a lot of revision, or so I thought until realising it was supplementing what I already knew and putting anyone not familiar with the other books in the picture.
I just love the complexity of Louise Penny’s plots as I follow along, trying to piece everything together and work out what is happening. There is so much there, often highly connected to our present world and society. Please note that I have given nothing away - not a spoiler in sight….

eGJ

sorry it’s finished!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 1, 2022

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You wait for every November for the new Gamache; it arrives and is always so page-turning that you devour it at speed. And now it’s over.
A bleaker, darker tale, but all the well loved characters are there with menacing new ones. A deep story, absorbing and now I must go back to the very first book and read them all in sequence. Thoroughly recommend this one!

euthenia

wow

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 17, 2022

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Art, history, folklore, suspense and human characters all embraces in a beautifully woven novel. Edgy in places and, as usual, unpredictable this is yet another page turner. Thank you - I do hope any TV series doesn’t change the story line as the written word is wonderful as it is.

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