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Miss Wolcott's Ghost

Miss Wolcott's Ghost

MysteryPolice Procedural
Not yet released
Pages
416
Language
English

Synopsis

A cryptic pre-dawn call — "There's a body in Lost Nation" — that cuts off before Gamache can respond sends him and his team to a location no one can place. The corpse looks a century old, resting atop an unmarked, long-abandoned grave, and the case unravels into a hunt for a lost ship, a Victorian botanist's missing papers, and a plant no one has seen in a hundred years.

Miss Wolcott's Ghost continues the Chief Inspector Gamache / Three Pines series.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

MysteriousAtmosphericReflectiveTense
Mystery BoxMentor Figure

Genres

Mystery Police Procedural Crime

About the author

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Louise Penny

Louise Penny is a Canadian crime novelist, born in Toronto in 1958. She spent eighteen years as a radio host and journalist with the CBC before leaving in 1996 to write fiction. Her debut, Still Life, introduced Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and won the Arthur Ellis, Anthony, Barry and Dilys awards for best first novel. The Gamache books are set largely in Three Pines, a fictional Quebec village, and have since won multiple Agatha and Anthony awards. In 2021 she co-wrote...

Characters

Armand GamacheProtagonist

Head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, woken in the small hours at his home in Three Pines by a caller who says there is a body in Lost Nation.

Jean-Guy BeauvoirSupporting

Gamache's second-in-command on the investigation.

Isabelle LacosteSupporting

A member of Gamache's homicide team.

Clara MorrowSupporting

Gamache's neighbour in Three Pines, drawn into the case.

Reine-Marie GamacheSupporting

Gamache's wife.

All characters in Miss Wolcott's Ghost