It’s bad publicity for the city when the businesswoman of the year is murdered execution style. Officials want the case solved fast.
Reinstated after a suspension for a fast trigger, Beaudry teams up with a new recruit. She’s smart, full of Irish wit and has a smile warm enough to melt titanium.
As the April weather heats up so does the chemistry between the partners. Beaudry’s no rulebook tactics gets them in the cross-hairs of a hit squad as the body count multiplies and the case spirals into international proportions implicating terrorists, crooked financiers, local politicians and a mob hit-man.
Lieutenant Beaudry inherits a bloodbath in upper Westmount, the richest postal code in Canada. A prominent lawyer and TV host beaten and shot, his bodyguard hacked to death.
A Russian money-laundering operation, a psychopathic Korean playboy, a sleazy private eye, and an international hit team are somehow connected, and Beaudry must close the case without shooting anyone. Meanwhile, his ex-wife has run off in his vintage muscle car, and Internal Affairs is poking around-in other words, he’s having a normal week.
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.
Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines...