gamache, armand (fictional character)

"When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the S?ret? du Qu?bec to places even he is afraid to go. But must. And there he finds four young cadets in the S?ret? academy, and a dead professor. And, with the body, a copy of the old, odd map"--Provided by publisher.

"When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more thana curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the S?ret? du Qu?bec to places even he is afraid to go. But must. And there he finds four young cadets in the S?ret? academy, and a dead professor. And, with the body, a copy of the old, odd map"--Provided by publisher.

Fifty-year-old artist Clara Morrow, having survived her first solo show at the famed Mus?e in Montr?al, returns to her home in the tiny village of Three Pines for a celebration with close friends, but her high spirits are dashed when the body of an old art school classmate is found in her garden, leaving Chief Inspector Gamache to navigate the light and shadow of the art world in search of answers.