*Chaos is coming, old son.* With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. As families prepare to head back to the city and children say goodbye to summer, a stranger is found murdered in the village bistro and antiques store. Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in
The Brutal Telling
β Scribed by Louise Penny
- Publisher
- MacMillan;Minotaur Books
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 228 KB
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Chaos is coming, old son.Β With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier's Bistroβincluding 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 treasuresβfrom first editions of Charlotte's Web and Jane Eyre to a spiderweb with a word mysteriously woven in itβinto the woods and across the continent, before returning to Three Pines to confront the truth and the final, brutal telling.
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