Chief Inspector Armand Gamache · Book 11

The Nature of the Beast

by Louise Penny

Published
25 August 2015
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9781529386479
Type
novel

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About this book

The Nature of the Beast (2015) is the eleventh Gamache novel, continuing Louise Penny's pattern of returning Armand Gamache and the Three Pines villagers -- Ruth Zardo, Clara Morrow, Myrna Landers -- to another case. It runs 384 pages, coming before A Great Reckoning.

Its place in Chief Inspector Armand Gamache

The Nature of the Beast is book 11 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. It follows The Long Way Home. It is followed by A Great Reckoning. 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…

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