The Beautiful Mystery

Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups is a monastery so remote that for centuries no outsider knew it existed. Then two dozen cloistered Gilbertine monks made a recording of Gregorian chant, and the world came looking. Now their choirmaster lies dead in the abbot's garden, and for the first time the door is opened — to Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir.

The monks have taken a vow of silence. The killer is certainly one of them. As Gamache works through a community divided over the recordings that brought them fame, Beauvoir is left exposed to a very different threat, and Superintendent Francoeur arrives with his own reasons for being there.

The Beautiful Mystery is the eighth Chief Inspector Gamache novel: a locked-room mystery in the truest sense, and the book in which the long war inside the Sûreté finally reaches the people Gamache loves most.