--- product_id: 41900928 title: "A Great Reckoning: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, 12)" price: "₨590" currency: SCR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sc/products/41900928-a-great-reckoning-a-novel-chief-inspector-gamache-novel-12 store_origin: SC region: Seychelles --- # A Great Reckoning: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, 12) **Price:** ₨590 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** A Great Reckoning: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, 12) - **How much does it cost?** ₨590 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sc](https://www.desertcart.sc/products/41900928-a-great-reckoning-a-novel-chief-inspector-gamache-novel-12) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Instant New York Times bestseller: #1 in Hardcover Fiction #1 in E-book Fiction #1 in Combined Print and E-book Fiction "Deep and grand and altogether extraordinary....Miraculous." ― The Washington Post "Artful...Powerful...Magical." - The New York Times Book Review "Superb" - People “ A Great Reckoning succeeds on every level." ― St. Louis Post-Dispatch #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerful truth in her latest spellbinding novel. When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Sûreté du Québec to places even he is afraid to go. But must. And there he finds four young cadets in the Sûreté academy, and a dead professor. And, with the body, a copy of the old, odd map. Everywhere Gamache turns, he sees Amelia Choquet, one of the cadets. Tattooed and pierced. Guarded and angry. Amelia is more likely to be found on the other side of a police line-up. And yet she is in the academy. A protégée of the murdered professor. The focus of the investigation soon turns to Gamache himself and his mysterious relationship with Amelia, and his possible involvement in the crime. The frantic search for answers takes the investigators back to Three Pines and a stained glass window with its own horrific secrets. For both Amelia Choquet and Armand Gamache, the time has come for a great reckoning. This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback. Review: A Great Reckoning is truly satisfying - This is a book that’s hard to put down. The characters are wonderful. The plot is interesting. The writing is at times exquisite, much better than most mystery novels. I thoroughly enjoyed it and dare I say, you will, too! Review: GREAT STORY FROM A GREAT WRITER - Louise Penny writes about Chief Inspector Armand Gamache’s new job in “A GREAT RECKONING.” As Director of the Surete du Quebec’s cadet academy, Gamache finds the body of a professor who has been shot, four cadets with secrets, many people with motives, and an old map that doesn’t make sense but that becomes very involved in the story. Further investigation reveal his own partial fingerprints on the murder weapon, his manipulation of the faculty and curriculum, his odd behavior prior to and during the investigation, and his apparent closeness to a suspicious girl; actions that put him right at the top of the list of suspects. Penny, a master at creating mysterious plots takes the reader on a journey of puzzling activity. It doesn’t seem likely that Gamache, the beloved central character of her most successful mysteries would be involved in a murder but the story creates doubt in the reader’s mind and poses the question of how will he extricate himself from the suspicion. Many characters in the novel have long standing roles in the Gamache series, many others surface, and all are unique in their participation. The author is adept in developing her characterizations with their various eccentricities. It’s not likely they will become bosom buddies with the reader but they will be unforgettable. Their roles add depth to the exciting and perplexing story. Some are pompous, some are officious, some are eccentric, some are disrespectful, some are distasteful; but their oddities add surprise as the investigation unfolds. Penny has a great website that invites close regard by visitors. All the usual entries are there, arranged in a manner that strongly encourages one to poke around. There are no secrets, Penny is loquacious and open, and the information is intriguing. Extensive detailing of her books and an impressive listing of her awards attest to her writing skills. One could, and should, spend hours there reviewing her thoughts and the details of her many mystery novels. Particularly touching is her tribute to her late husband, the driving force behind her devotion and sensitive approach to life. I admire Louise Penny and her love of writing. I also consider her to be a thoughtful and caring person with an immaculate mind and knack for telling stories. Does Gamache wriggle out of his dilemma? You know the answer to that. What you don’t know is the inventive scheme developed by the author to make it all happen. Read the book. Schuyler T Wallace Author of TIN LIZARD TALES ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #309,197 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #95 in International Mystery & Crime (Books) #373 in Cozy Mysteries (Books) #10,316 in Literature & Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 38,166 Reviews | ## Images ![A Great Reckoning: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, 12) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91l8CC0LvYL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Great Reckoning is truly satisfying *by L***N on September 4, 2026* This is a book that’s hard to put down. The characters are wonderful. The plot is interesting. The writing is at times exquisite, much better than most mystery novels. I thoroughly enjoyed it and dare I say, you will, too! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ GREAT STORY FROM A GREAT WRITER *by S***E on June 20, 2017* Louise Penny writes about Chief Inspector Armand Gamache’s new job in “A GREAT RECKONING.” As Director of the Surete du Quebec’s cadet academy, Gamache finds the body of a professor who has been shot, four cadets with secrets, many people with motives, and an old map that doesn’t make sense but that becomes very involved in the story. Further investigation reveal his own partial fingerprints on the murder weapon, his manipulation of the faculty and curriculum, his odd behavior prior to and during the investigation, and his apparent closeness to a suspicious girl; actions that put him right at the top of the list of suspects. Penny, a master at creating mysterious plots takes the reader on a journey of puzzling activity. It doesn’t seem likely that Gamache, the beloved central character of her most successful mysteries would be involved in a murder but the story creates doubt in the reader’s mind and poses the question of how will he extricate himself from the suspicion. Many characters in the novel have long standing roles in the Gamache series, many others surface, and all are unique in their participation. The author is adept in developing her characterizations with their various eccentricities. It’s not likely they will become bosom buddies with the reader but they will be unforgettable. Their roles add depth to the exciting and perplexing story. Some are pompous, some are officious, some are eccentric, some are disrespectful, some are distasteful; but their oddities add surprise as the investigation unfolds. Penny has a great website that invites close regard by visitors. All the usual entries are there, arranged in a manner that strongly encourages one to poke around. There are no secrets, Penny is loquacious and open, and the information is intriguing. Extensive detailing of her books and an impressive listing of her awards attest to her writing skills. One could, and should, spend hours there reviewing her thoughts and the details of her many mystery novels. Particularly touching is her tribute to her late husband, the driving force behind her devotion and sensitive approach to life. I admire Louise Penny and her love of writing. I also consider her to be a thoughtful and caring person with an immaculate mind and knack for telling stories. Does Gamache wriggle out of his dilemma? You know the answer to that. What you don’t know is the inventive scheme developed by the author to make it all happen. Read the book. Schuyler T Wallace Author of TIN LIZARD TALES ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny: A review *by P***N on November 16, 2016* Reading one of Louise Penny's Armand Gamache mysteries is like receiving a warm embrace from a much-loved old friend. It is comfort reading of the highest order. A Great Reckoning is the twelfth entry in the series. I've read them all - in order, of course. There are none of them that I haven't enjoyed, though some naturally are better than others, but this, in my opinion, is one of the best. Armand Gamache spent years as the head of homicide in the Sûreté du Québec, and during that time, he discovered that his agency was riddled with corruption. The venality of a powerful cadre within the Sûreté had created an atmosphere of cruelty and criminality that had cost it the trust and respect of the public. Gamache made it his crusade to clean up the agency and once again make it worthy of public trust. He accomplished his goal, but it almost cost him his life. He retired from the Sûreté and he and his wife went to live in the little village of Three Pines where he healed from his wounds and where he eventually became bored and began looking for something to do. He was offered several different jobs but the one that appealed to him was that of commandant of the Sûreté's academy. Realizing that his quest was not truly complete until the academy, too, was purged of bad actors and influences, he accepted the task, and in this book, we see him beginning that new role. His wife is happy that he will be working at the academy where she believes he will be safe. Little does she know! Gamache dismisses many of the academy's staff and hires new instructors, but, curiously, he leaves the most brutal and corrupt professor in place. He hopes to gather enough evidence on the man to finally put him away for good and, at the same time, identify the brains behind the operation, a person he believes is someone outside the Sûreté. But soon that corrupt professor is found dead in his room, a victim of a highly staged murder. Suspicion falls initially upon some of the cadets he had brutalized, but then comes to rest on Gamache himself. Meanwhile, back in Three Pines, the villagers, including Madame Gamache, are busy sorting through desiccated newspapers, catalogs, magazines, and other papers that were stuffed into the walls of what is now the bistro as insulation a century earlier. The papers were pulled out and saved during a renovation. How this endeavor somehow connects up with events at the academy is at the heart of this story of lost innocence - the innocence of the village's sons who marched off to war a century before and never came home and the betrayed innocence of academy cadets, some of whom seem at first glance not very innocent at all. As always with Penny's crime novels, this is very much a character-driven story. We get to know the characters with all their flaws and humanity and they engage our emotions so completely that we feel as though we could reach out and touch them. It is the complexities of the relationships that makes it all so real and that makes the reader eager to keep turning those pages to find out what will happen next. We are involved in the plot which Penny weaves together seamlessly. And at the center of all this is Armand Gamache, surely one of the most humane and human of policemen in all of crime fiction. He understands that kindness is not weakness and that love trumps hate. At the same time, he is implacable as he pursues the evil that pollutes his beloved Sûreté and that has infected the minds of some of the cadets who are the future of the agency. Then, of course, there are all the quirky Three Pines characters that we've come to know and love over the years: the cranky old poet, the bookstore owner, the gay couple who own and run the bistro, the acclaimed artist, and all the rest. Even the dogs. This is a story that is full of wisdom, forgiveness, kindness, and, yes, grief. It is an absorbing read and it is with regret that one turns that last page. The warm embrace ends and one must return to the cold reality of the world and all of its frustrations and irritations. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sc/products/41900928-a-great-reckoning-a-novel-chief-inspector-gamache-novel-12](https://www.desertcart.sc/products/41900928-a-great-reckoning-a-novel-chief-inspector-gamache-novel-12) --- *Product available on Desertcart Seychelles* *Store origin: SC* *Last updated: 2026-10-25*