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The Black Wolf

The Black Wolf

MysteryThriller
Published
2025
Language
English

Synopsis

Armand Gamache and his team stopped a domestic terror attack on Montréal and arrested the man behind it — the Black Wolf. It should have been over. Instead Gamache comes to understand that the plot he broke was a diversion, and that the real one is still running.

Injured and confined to Three Pines, unable to trust the chain of command above him, he directs a covert investigation from the village. What surfaces is a network with friends in law enforcement, in industry and in government, and a target still to come.

The Black Wolf is the twentieth Chief Inspector Gamache novel, published in October 2025. It completes the story begun in The Grey Wolf and should be read after it.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

TenseDarkAtmosphericMysterious
BetrayalMorally Grey

Genres

Mystery Thriller 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

Chief Inspector, running a covert investigation from Three Pines while recovering from injury.

Jean-Guy BeauvoirSupporting

Gamache's son-in-law and second-in-command.

Isabelle LacosteSupporting

Senior investigator on Gamache's team.

Reine-Marie GamacheSupporting

Gamache's wife.

All characters in The Black Wolf