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The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines for the fifth book in Louise Penny''s award-winning and critically revered mystery series

Chaos is coming, old son.

With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier''s Bistroincluding a stranger whose murdered body is found on the floor. When Chief Inspector Gamache is called to investigate, he is dismayed to discover that Olivier''s story is full of holes. Why are his fingerprints all over the cabin that''s uncovered deep in the wilderness, with priceless antiques and the dead man''s blood? And what other secrets and layers of lies are buried in the seemingly idyllic village?

Gamache follows a trail of clues and treasuresfrom first editions of Charlotte''s Web and Jane Eyre to a spiderweb with a word mysteriously woven in itinto the woods and across the continent, before returning to Three Pines to confront the truth an

The Brutal Telling

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    Publisher: Minotaur Books
    Publication Date: 31/08/2010
    ISBN13: 9780312661687, 978-0312661687
    ISBN10: 0312661681
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    Description

    Book Synopsis

    The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines for the fifth book in Louise Penny''s award-winning and critically revered mystery series

    Chaos is coming, old son.

    With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier''s Bistroincluding a stranger whose murdered body is found on the floor. When Chief Inspector Gamache is called to investigate, he is dismayed to discover that Olivier''s story is full of holes. Why are his fingerprints all over the cabin that''s uncovered deep in the wilderness, with priceless antiques and the dead man''s blood? And what other secrets and layers of lies are buried in the seemingly idyllic village?

    Gamache follows a trail of clues and treasuresfrom first editions of Charlotte''s Web and Jane Eyre to a spiderweb with a word mysteriously woven in itinto the woods and across the continent, before returning to Three Pines to confront the truth an

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