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No último feriado prolongado do verão, visitantes e moradores de Three Pines se reúnem para aproveitar os dias de folga em meio a uma programação agitada. Porém, a descoberta de um cadáver no bistrô de Olivier e Gabri acaba com o clima agradável. Um homem levou um golpe fatal na cabeça, só que não há sinal da arma do crime e não se sabe o motivo do assassinato ou mesmo o nome daquele estranho.

"Brassard's accents—whether French Canadian, Italian, or continental French—create indelible characters. His performance lets us feel Reine Marie's warmth and Armand's affectionate nature, and he adds an additional layer to surly Ruth and her potty-mouthed duck. Exciting and entertaining."...

Der Alltag kehrt zurück nach Three Pines. Das idyllische Dorf in den kanadischen Wäldern hat die Pandemie weitgehend unbeschadet überstanden. Olivier und Gabri dürfen das Bistro wieder öffnen, und Myrna schließt die Tür zum Buchladen auf. Spuren haben die vergangenen Monate trotzdem hinterlassen: Einer Professorin aus British Columbia ist es gelungen, mit ihren Theorien die Öffentlichkeit zu spalten. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache von der Sûreté du Québec beobachtet die aufgeheizte Stimmung mit Sorge.

On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The dead man was a guest at the local Inn and Spa. He might have been looking for peace and quiet, but something else found him. Something horrible. Did the man take his own life? Or was he murdered?

"Ralph Cosham delivers a delightful accent for Gamache and invests all the characters with small-town likability." —AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines The Brutal Telling, the fifth book in Louise Penny's #1...

The 20th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montréal...

O experiente inspetor-chefe Armand Gamache e sua equipe de investigadores da Sûreté du Québec são chamados a uma cena do crime suspeita em Three Pines, um bucólico vilarejo ao sul de Montreal. Jane Neal, uma pacata professora de 76 anos, foi encontrada morta, atingida por uma flecha no bosque. Os moradores acreditam que a tragédia não passa de um infeliz acidente, já que é temporada de caça, mas Gamache pressente que há algo bem mais sombrio acontecendo. Ele só não imagina por que alguém iria querer matar uma senhora que era querida por todos.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it’s a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain that Jane Neal died at the hands of someone much more sinister than a careless bowhunter.

But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara's solo show at the famed Musée in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, is called to the tiny Quebec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light. Where nothing is as it seems. Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart.

Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions to walking trees to winged beasts in the woods to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village.

Christmas is approaching, and in Québec it's a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department, his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasn't spoken to him in months, and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message from Myrna Landers that a longtime friend has failed to arrive for Christmas in the village of Three Pines, he welcomes the chance to get away.

Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a balm in Gilead," his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, "to make the wounded whole." While Gamache doesn't talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. She wants Gamache's help to find him. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. "There’s power enough in Heaven," he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, "to cure a sin-sick soul." And then he gets up. And joins her.

Um hotel no meio do nada parece o destino perfeito para um investigador descansar e se afastar do trabalho. Até que um caso macabro acontece. No auge do verão canadense, o inspetor Gamache e sua esposa comemoram o aniversário de casamento no Manoir Bellechasse, um hotel luxuoso em meio à natureza, não muito longe do vilarejo de Three Pines. Só que os dois não estão sozinhos: a família Finney, tão rica quanto complicada, também se reuniu lá para uma ocasião especial. Para surpresa dos Gamaches, chegam ainda mais dois convidados para o evento, conhecidos do casal.

É primavera no vilarejo de Three Pines, no Quebec. Em meio às flores desabrochando e aos ovos de chocolate, alguns moradores decidem aproveitar a presença de uma médium para realizar uma sessão espírita no casarão abandonado da colina. A ideia é livrar a cidade do mal que se apoderou dela–mas a tensão do momento faz com que um deles não saia vivo dali. Em pouco tempo, um questionamento ganha força: é possível alguém morrer de susto ou terá sido um assassinato?

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. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to...

The brilliant novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Louise Penny, one of the most acclaimed crime writers of our time No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in...

"...the events in GLASS HOUSES challenge Gamache's conscience unlike any of the previous audiobooks, with Bathurst prying open the hero's heart and soul and laying it bare for listeners to experience at a visceral level." — Audiofile Magazine AN AUGUST 2017 LibraryReads PICK! When a mysterious...

Felizmente retirado en el idílico pueblo de Three Pines, el inspector jefe Armand Gamache ha hallado un remanso de paz difícil de imaginar. Pero la monótona placidez de la lectura y la felicidad del sol matutino se truncan cuando Clara Morrow le cuenta que Peter, su marido, ha incumplido la promesa de volver a casa un año después de su separación y le pide ayuda para encontrarlo.

En La naturaleza de la bestia, la undécima entrega de la popular y aclamada serie dedicada a Armand Gamache, el ex inspector jefe de homicidios de la Sûreté du Québec debe abandonar su tranquila vida de jubilado en Three Pines para investigar la desaparición de un niño. El caso destapa una serie de sucesos que conducen a un asesinato y que, a su vez, nos guían hasta un antiguo crimen: a lo mejor el monstruo que hace veinticinco años llegó a Three Pines y sembró la desgracia entre la población ha regresado.

La Navidad está a la vuelta de la esquina, y en Quebec eso significa nevadas que encandilan, luces de colores y encuentros con amigos ante una chimenea encendida. Sin embargo, para Armand Gamache, el inspector jefe de la Sûreté du Québec, estas fechas normalmente festivas quedan ensombrecidas: algunos de sus mejores agentes del Departamento de Homicidios han sido trasladados a otras unidades, lleva meses sin hablar con su viejo amigo, el teniente Jean-Guy Beauvoir, y fuerzas hostiles están alineándose contra él.