The solving of that mystery was detailed by Penny in her 2009 book The Brutal Telling. Meanwhile, the inspector receives daily letters from Tree Pines, raising a key unanswered question from his recent investigation there into the slaying of a man whose body was found on the floor of a bistro. Gamache, somewhat reluctantly, helps search for the killer. But, one morning, Augustin Renaud, who has made himself an archeological pest with his obsessive search for the burial place of Samuel de Champlain, the founder of the city, is himself found murdered in the Society’s basement. While in Quebec City, Gamache has been doing research at the Literary and Historical Society which Penny depicts as an island of Englishness in the provincial sea of French Canadians.As he recalls them piece by piece, the reader learns of the horrific crime. But the injured Gamache has consciously and subconsciously blocked many of the details. It’s not a mystery for the book’s characters inasmuch as it was a major violent crime that shocked the nation and the world.
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