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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to the remote Manoir Bellechasse for a wedding anniversary celebration, where a grotesque murder among the Finney family forces him and his team to unravel a perplexing mystery set in Quebec.

During Quebec City's Winter Carnival, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache must solve a murder in the Literary and Historical Society, where a historian’s search for Samuel de Champlain’s remains unearths a buried secret that drives someone to kill.

When a stranger dies in a Quebec village, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache confronts secrets hidden in the bistro, antiques shop, and the town's residents—and the town’s hidden history.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec investigates a surprising death in the quiet village of Three Pines, uncovering a sinister truth beneath the seeming hunting accident.

Retired Quebec detective Armand Gamache reluctantly assists a neighbor’s search for her missing husband, uncovering the disturbing workings of a psychologically damaged mind.

In Quebec's village of Three Pines, Inspector Armand Gamache faces a supernatural séance gone wrong, a baffling death, and accusations from his own police hierarchy, all while trying to protect his team's integrity and clear his name.

Detective Armand Gamache faces Quebec’s toughest case yet: a high‑profile disappearance that threatens the reputation of the Sûreté and pulls him into a web of danger and corruption.

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. "I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn't. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life."To Flavia the investigation is the stuff of science: full of possibilities, contradictions, and connections. Soon her father, a man raising his three daughters alone, is seized, accused of murder. And in a police cell, during a violent thunderstorm, Colonel de Luce tells his daughter an astounding story--of a schoolboy friendship turned ugly, of a priceless object that vanished in a bizarre and brazen act of thievery, of a Latin teacher who flung himself to his death from the school's tower thirty years before. Now Flavia is armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together, to examine new suspects, and begin a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself. Of this much the girl is sure: her father is innocent of murder--but protecting her and her sisters from something even worse....An enthralling mystery, a piercing depiction of class and society, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is a masterfully told tale of deceptions--and a rich literary delight.From the Hardcover edition.