Chief Inspector Armand Gamache · Book 20
The Black Wolf
- Published
- 28 October 2025
- ISBN-13
- 9781250403339
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Black Wolf (2025) is the twentieth Gamache novel, directly continuing the story begun in The Grey Wolf the year before as the two-part entry Louise Penny built to close out this stretch of the series. It's followed by book 21, Miss Wolcott's Ghost, due October 2026.
Its place in Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
The Black Wolf is book 20 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. It follows The Grey Wolf. 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
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