Glass Houses: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel 13)

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"...the events in GLASS HOUSES challenge Gamaches conscience unlike any of the previous audiobooks with Bathurst prying open the heros heart and soul and laying it bare for listeners to experience at a visceral level." Audiofile Magazine AN AUGUST 2017 LibraryReads PICK! When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet the figure stands unmoving staring ahead. From the moment its shadow falls over the village Gamache now Chief Superintendent of the Sret du Qubec suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope his mounting fears are not realized. But when the figure vanishes overnight and a body is discovered it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied. Months later on a steamy July day as the trial for the accused begins in Montral Chief Superintendent Gamache continues to struggle with actions he set in motion that bitter November from which there is no going back. More than the accused is on trial. Gamaches own conscience is standing in judgment. In Glass Houses her latest utterly gripping audiobook number-one New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny shatters the conventions of the crime novel to explore what Gandhi called the court of conscience. A court that supersedes all others.