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The Grey Wolf

The Grey Wolf

MysteryPolice Procedural
Published
2024
Language
English

Synopsis

An August morning in Three Pines is broken by a series of small wrongnesses: a coat gone missing, an alarm tripped, a note left for Armand Gamache reading only 'this might interest you', and a torn scrap of paper carrying a list that makes no sense.

The pieces do not fit — until a murder makes them fit, and Gamache understands that what he is looking at is not a crime that has happened but one that is about to. The trail runs out of the village, across Québec and over borders, into a conspiracy in which it becomes very hard to know which allies are still allies.

The Grey Wolf is the nineteenth Chief Inspector Gamache novel, and the first half of a two-book story completed in The Black Wolf.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

TenseDarkMysteriousAtmospheric
Mystery BoxBetrayalMorally Grey

Genres

Mystery Police Procedural Thriller 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 of homicide, chasing a set of clues whose true scale only becomes clear late.

Jean-Guy BeauvoirSupporting

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

Isabelle LacosteSupporting

Senior investigator on Gamache's homicide team.

Reine-Marie GamacheSupporting

Gamache's wife.

All characters in The Grey Wolf