Louise Penny

Das Dorf Three Pines liegt so versteckt in den kanadischen Wäldern, dass es auf keiner Landkarte verzeichnet ist. Nur ein Ort ist noch schwieriger zu finden: das Gilbertinerkloster Entre-les-Lupes. Hoch im Norden Québecs, an einem einsamen See, leben die Mönche von selbst angebautem Gemüse und sind vor allem eins: schweigsam und friedfertig. Da ist das Entsetzen groß, als Frère Mathieu, der allseits beliebte Chorleiter, hinterrücks erschlagen...

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Easter in Three Pines is a time of church services, egg hunts and seances to raise the dead. A group of friends trudges up to the Old Hadley House, the horror on the hill, to finally rid it of the evil spirits that have so obviously plagued it, and the village, for decades. But instead of freeing a spirit, they create a new one. One of their numbers dies of fright. Or was it murder? Enter Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team from the Surete...

"In the green depths of spring, morning breaks on a woman splayed in a bed of flowers--her eyes wide, her neck broken. Her death is a mystery; so is the woman herself. But as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team peer into the dark corners of the victim's past, they expose a secret that rots at the very heart of their community--a secret that will implicate smeone they've trusted for years."--Back cover.

Christmas is approaching, and in Quebec 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.

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This Book Club in a Box is a book discussion kit which circulates for six weeks and contains everything you need to host your own book club. "An intricate old map is found stuffed into a wall of the bistro in Three Pines, and 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 shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former...