The revolver was LeDuc’s and had partial prints of several, including Amelia and Gamache, who claims he never handled the gun, which he would have banned. Then one of the four student “servants” of LeDuc, Nathaniel Smythe finds him dead of a gunshot to the temple, only the gun is found on the opposite side of his body. He also assigns the four students LeDuc is grooming, who “serve” LeDuc (Amelia Choquet, Nathaniel Smythe, Huifen Cloutier, and Jacques Laurin) to figure out the mystery of the map in the wall He also brings his estranged childhood friend and former superior Michel Brebeuf, who had given way to the corruption of the Sûreté.

He keeps on the former assistant director at the Academy, Serge LeDuc, as a professor, explaining he knows he is a source of corruption but did not have evidence. With her piercings, tattoos, troubled background and poor marks, it seems that it would not be a hard decision. One of Armand’s first duties is to review new candidate applications. Among these was an unusual map with a snowman and a pyramid, and a very young Three Pines. She agrees to help Ruth, Myrna, and Clara sort through old papers stuffed in the wall of the Bistro, perhaps a hundred years ago. Meanwhile, Reine-Marie has settled down in the village, helping archive its history. The Academy was where the corruption of young officers began, and his determination was to bring it to an end. He has accepted the command of the Sûreté Academy, training future officers. *Note: if you have not read previous books in this series, information in this review may include “spoilers” for previous books.Īrmand Gamache has figured out his next work after his brief retirement in Three Pines. Summary: Gamache returns to the Sûreté as Commander of its Academy, and finds himself at the center of a murder investigation of one of its corrupt professors. A Great Reckoning(Chief Inspector Gamache #12), Louise Penny.

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