A Great Reckoning

On the first day of his new job, Armand Gamache is given an intricate old map that was stuffed in the walls of the bistro of Three Pines – the Québec village he now calls home. The map eventually leads him to shattering secrets, and an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former chief of homicide to places even he is afraid to go. But must.

There he finds four young cadets in the police academy, and a dead professor. And, with the body, a copy of an old, odd map.

Everywhere Gamache turns, he sees one of the cadets. Tattooed and pierced. Guarded and angry. Amelia Choquet is more likely  to be found on the other side of a police lineup. And yet, there she is – a protégée of the murdered professor.

For both Amelia and Gamache, the time has come for a great reckoning.