And then there is the very big and evil thing that is hanging over the story, a thing that involves cartels, drugs, death for everyone in one way or another. Something is not right with them on this visit. There are also some long time visitors to Three Pines who usually visit during the warmer months but instead are here in the darker, fall months. But whoever is under those robes has done nothing wrong so Gamache does nothing either.
The entire village is disturbed by this dark figure and want it gone. There is the The Cobrador, a hooded, mysterious figure that has started standing in Three Pines' village center. The story has several threads that may or may not meet up by the end. This was the most confusing story in the series for me although I did enjoy the story despite my confusion. There is that timeline but we also see things that happened before the trial and things that happen after the trial, with all three timelines interspersed throughout the book. In book thirteen of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series there is a trial. Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Gamache #13)īy Louise Penny, Robert Bathurst (Narrator) In her latest utterly gripping book, number-one New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny shatters the conventions of the crime novel to explore what Gandhi called the court of conscience.
Gamache's own conscience is standing in judgment. Months later, on a steamy July day, as the trial for the accused begins in Montréal, Chief Superintendent Gamache continues to struggle with actions he set in motion that bitter November from which there is no going back. And hope his mounting fears are not realized.īut when the figure vanishes overnight and a body is discovered, it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead.įrom the moment the creature's shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Quebec, suspects it has deep roots and a dark purpose. When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious.
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