Louise Penny's astonishing sixth novel in the award-winning Chief Inspector Gamache series finds the head of homicide investigating a centuries-old mystery in Quebec City. With the streets of the beautiful walled city clogged with both snow and winter carnival revellers, a body is found in the dirt basement of the Literary and Historical Society. It's Augustin Renaud, an amateur archaeologist who has spent his life searching for the remains of Samuel de Champlain. No one knows where the explorer and father of Quebec was buried 250 years earlier. It's a mystery that haunts this venerable old city. How could they have lost the founder? Had Renaud finally found the body? Was that why he was killed? What dreadful old secret lies buried with Champlain that someone would kill to protect it? For Chief Inspector Gamache the past and present collide in this wrenching story of grief and guilt and the power of memory.
- ISBN10 0755341066
- ISBN13 9780755341061
- Publish Date 31 December 2025
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 7 June 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Headline Publishing Group
- Imprint Headline Book Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English