

One of his replacements was a former friend and colleague, Michael Brebeurf. Consequently, he kept Leduc in a professor’s role even though he had replaced most of the worst offenders. In addition to questionable training methods, he was almost certainly taking kickbacks for most contracts with the academy. The prime mover in this effort has been Serge Leduc, the person responsible for the operation of the Academy prior to Gamache. Recent cadets have been trained to dominate the public rather than serve it. He has been given the task of cleaning the corruption from it as he did the Quebec Provincial Police. This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback.Armand Gamache is now the superintendent of the Quebec Police Academy. The frantic search for answers takes the investigators back to Three Pines and a stained glass window with its own horrific secrets.įor both Amelia Choquet and Armand Gamache, the time has come for a great reckoning.

The focus of the investigation soon turns to Gamache himself and his mysterious relationship with Amelia, and his possible involvement in the crime. Amelia is more likely to be found on the other side of a police line-up. And, with the body, a copy of the old, odd map.Įverywhere Gamache turns, he sees Amelia Choquet, one of the cadets. But must.Īnd there he finds four young cadets in the Sûreté academy, and a dead professor. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Sûreté du Québec to places even he is afraid to go. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerful truth in her latest spellbinding novel. “ A Great Reckoning succeeds on every level."

"Deep and grand and altogether extraordinary.Miraculous."
