The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Written by Louise Penny
Narrated by Ralph Cosham
4.5/5
()
About this audiobook
"Ralph Cosham delivers a delightful accent for Gamache and invests all the characters with small-town likability." —AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines The Brutal Telling, the fifth book in Louise Penny's #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Chaos is coming, old son.
With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier's Bistro—including a stranger whose murdered body is found on the floor. When Chief Inspector Gamache is called to investigate, he is dismayed to discover that Olivier's story is full of holes. Why are his fingerprints all over the cabin that's uncovered deep in the wilderness, with priceless antiques and the dead man's blood? And what other secrets and layers of lies are buried in the seemingly idyllic village?
Gamache follows a trail of clues and treasures—from first editions of Charlotte's Web and Jane Eyre to a spiderweb with a word mysteriously woven in it—into the woods and across the continent, before returning to Three Pines to confront the truth and the final, brutal telling.
Louise Penny
LOUISE PENNY is the multi-award winning author of the Chief Inspector Gamache novels, set in her home province of Québec, Canada. Her books, including State of Terror written with Hillary Rodham Clinton, have sold more than 18 million copies, topped international bestseller lists, including the New York Times, and been translated into 32 languages. The recipient of both the Order of Canada and l’Ordre national du Québec, her country’s highest civilian honours, her Three Pines Foundation reaches out to those in crisis and offers financial and emotional support, with a special focus on literacy as well as dementia care. Her husband, Michael, died of dementia in 2016. She lives with her Golden Retriever Muggins in a village south of Montréal.
More audiobooks from Louise Penny
The Hangman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5State of Terror: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to The Brutal Telling
Titles in the series (15)
A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cruelest Month: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Rule Against Murder: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Brutal Telling: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Glass Houses: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Nature of the Beast: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Great Reckoning: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All the Devils Are Here: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kingdom of the Blind: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related audiobooks
Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Rule Against Murder: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cruelest Month: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Beautiful Mystery: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Nature of the Beast: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Glass Houses: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Great Reckoning: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kingdom of the Blind: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All the Devils Are Here: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Birds that Stay Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dogs of Winter Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Death at La Fenice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Long Call: A Detective Matthew Venn Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Raven Black: Book One of the Shetland Island Mysteries Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Heron's Cry: A Detective Matthew Venn Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What I Did For A Duke Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lord of Falcon Ridge Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Maiden's Hand: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Katabasis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5They Come at Knight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Human Toll Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Unseen Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Creatures: Bierce -Doyle - Black Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dragons of Babel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Mystery For You
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Listen for the Lie: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And Then There Were None Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5None of This is True: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Sherlock Holmes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The River We Remember: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silence of the Lambs: 25th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Midnight Feast: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hit and Run Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Marple: Twelve New Mysteries Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silence of the Lambs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unexpected Guest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tell No One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heaven’s Crooked Finger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What Lies in the Woods: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Did I Kill You?: A Thriller Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Woman in the Library, The Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mother-Daughter Murder Night: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When No One Is Watching: A Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hallowe'en Party: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Good Girl's Guide to Murder: A Debutante Dropout Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unspeakable Things Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One for the Money: A Stephanie Plum Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fifth Suspect Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This Tender Land Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Patient's Secret: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Brutal Telling
122 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautiful book.
One of my favorites so far. Louise Penny is an amazing find! As is Three Pines. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Enjoyed the parallel relationship of son and father and assumption that “ dad had died”