| International Standard Book Number |
9781250412584 (ebook)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250412607 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250412609 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Penny, Louise, author.
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| Title Statement |
Miss Wolcott's ghost : a Chief Inspector Gamache novel bk. 21 / Louise Penny.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
403 pages ; 25 cm.
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| Series Statement |
Chief Inspector Gamache ; bk. 21
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| Series Statement |
Inspector Armand Gamache mysteries
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| Series Statement |
Three Pines mystery
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| General Note |
Three Pines mystery bk. 21
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references.
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| Summary, Etc. |
The head of homicide for the Surete du Quebec has no idea where Lost Nation is, or who woke him in the small hours of the morning at his home in Three Pines insisting there's a body in Lost Nation. What he does know is that the man was terrified. And so Armand is thrust out of a deep sleep and into the surrounding forests in search of the mythical Lost Nation. And a body. When he and his team of Jean-Guy Beauvoir and Isabelle Lacoste find both, the situation only grows more bizarre. The unidentified dead man appears to be from an era more than a century old. He's lying in a long-abandoned cemetery, on top of a grave with a date, but no name. Adding to the mystery, the early morning call appears to have come from Gamache's friend and neighbor, Clara Morrow. While she denies any knowledge of it, it becomes clear there is some connection between her, the Morrow family, and Lost Nation. Soon, Gamache and his team are faced with tracking down not just the legend of Lost Nation, but a lost ship, lost documents belong to an eccentric Victorian botanist, and a mysterious plant not seen in a century, that might save, or take, countless lives. As the murder investigation deepens, nightmarish spectres from the past begin to haunt the Surete officers, only heightened by the appearance of one of Gamache's former and now disgraced proteges, with whom he must form an uneasy alliance. As the ghosts begin to gather, Gamache, Beauvoir, and Lacoste, with the help of Reine-Marie, Clara, and the other villagers of Three Pines, realize that the body on the grave is far from the only death. To solve the crime and avert catastrophe they must look to rancid secrets and old lies no longer dead and buried.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Investigation Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Secrecy Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Police QueÌbec (Province) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Ghost stories.
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