A Great Reckoning
- Published
- 30 August 2016
- Pages
- 504
- ISBN-13
- 9781410489395
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Great Reckoning (2016) is the twelfth of twenty Gamache novels, one of the longer entries at 504 pages, continuing the series' long game beneath each murder case: a meditation on goodness, belonging and the price of conscience.
Key facts about A Great Reckoning
A Great Reckoning is a novel by Louise Penny. Readers have had it since 30 August 2016. It runs to 504 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of A Great Reckoning. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781410489395 to find the main one.
A Great Reckoning is book 12 of 20 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. The series has 20 published books. However, the series starts with Still Life (2005). The Black Wolf is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 28 October 2025.
That series sits on our mystery shelf. Meanwhile, The Last Mandarin is the latest published Louise Penny book on file, from 12 May 2026.
About Louise Penny
Louise Penny is a Canadian author best known for the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, a long-running literary mystery series set largely in the fictional Quebec village of Three Pines, where a tight-knit cast of eccentric locals recurs across cases investigated by the thoughtful, morally grounded Sûreté du Québec inspector Gamache. See every Louise Penny book in order.
Its place in Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
A Great Reckoning is book 12 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. It follows The Nature of the Beast. It is followed by Glass Houses. See the full Chief Inspector Armand Gamache reading order.
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec is the rarest thing in crime fiction: a genuinely good man. Courtly, patient, fluent in poetry and human weakness, he teaches his agents four sentences that lead to wisdom — I was wrong. I'm sorry. I don't know. I need help. — and solves murders not by trickery but by listening until people reveal themselves. His cases keep returning him to Three Pines, a village south of Montreal that appears on no map, where croissants and cafe au lait at Olivier's bistro…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781405529471
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781427274403
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780751552652