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Violence
A lot
A conspiracy within a police force; direct threat to Gamache and people he loves; some violence
Language
Some
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Some
Social drinking; institutional pressure
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The psychology of an institution that has been compromised from within; the specific loneliness of a detective who cannot tell his colleagues what he knows
What this book is about
Chief Inspector Gamache discovers that a threat he thought he'd neutralized has not only survived but grown. Someone inside the Sûreté du Québec has been protecting the operation, and Gamache's attempts to root it out threaten to expose secrets that could destroy the institution he has spent his career building. Louise Penny's nineteenth Gamache novel is the most thriller-driven of the series — the pace is faster, the threat more direct — and the question of who inside the organization Gamache can trust is the engine of the investigation.
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nineteenth Chief Inspector Gamache novel
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