This is also very good; rooted in Three Pines (to which Gamache and his wife have now moved), as all her best books are.
Gamache has now retired but returned to the Montreal police to head up their training academy, where he believes the seeds of the corruption in the earlier books were laid. So he has deliberately reappointed two corrupt officers, and brings in another one, to investigate the murder (of one of them) of which he himself is a suspect.
There are also four young police cadets, one of whom may, it appears, be his illegitimate daughter (she isn’t, but has a deep and shocking link to his life). The murder is of course eventually solved, as are various other opaque mysteries.
Louise Penny’s partner has dementia as she sadly relates in the postscript, but the book remains about the power of love.
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