A Great Reckoning by PennyLouise is Chief Inspector Gamache #12 set in Three Pines, a small town in
Quebec. Armand Gamache is Commander of the Sûreté Academy. The plot has
everything: murder, a young girl with some link to Gamache, hidden millions
from corrupt activity, a 100-year-old map, a missing town, and secrets from the
past.
When Gamache takes over the Academy, he
removes most of the corrupt professors but keeps the worse one, Serge Leduc,
in hope that he can control the situation long enough to find the stolen money and
evidence to send The Duke to jail. Leduc is murdered. Four students who were
discovered to be part of his inner circle are implicated, first-years Amelia Choquet
and Nathaniel Smythe, and seniors Huifen Cloutier and Jacques Laurin. Gamache
is also a suspect. Amelia has a possibly embarrassing connection with Gamache.
The map is found in the wall of the bistro
during remodeling.
In addition to Leduc, Gamache gathers a rogues’
gallery of problematic people from his past: Michel Brébeuf, discredited former
superintendent of the Sûreté, and Hugo Charpentier, a tactician of an also
questionable past.
The RCMP Deputy Commissioner Paul Gélinas,
brought in as a neutral third-party to assure a thorough investigation, thinks
Gamache was the murder.
A mystery that revolves around personality and
character, also the abuse of power by teachers.
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