Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Some secrets refuse to stay buried...
'There's a body in Lost Nation.' But the line goes dead before Chief Inspector Armand Gamache can question the caller.
Soon, Gamache and his team are faced with tracking down not just the legend of Lost Nation, but a lost ship, lost documents belong to an eccentric Victorian botanist, and a mysterious plant not seen in a century, that might save, or take, countless lives.
As the ghosts begin to gather, Gamache realises that the body on the grave is far from the only death. To solve the crime and avert catastrophe he must look to rancid secrets and old lies no longer dead and buried.
'It's not difficult to see why Penny and her fans have come to regard Three Pines as a refuge in a chaotic and alarming world'
Sunday Times
'Penny has no peer in her ability to situate the lives of sympathetic characters within such elaborate and thrilling storylines'
Wall Street Journal
'Nobody does evil quite as scarily as Louise Penny'
Ann Cleeves
Some secrets refuse to stay buried...
'There's a body in Lost Nation.' But the line goes dead before Chief Inspector Armand Gamache can question the caller.
Soon, Gamache and his team are faced with tracking down not just the legend of Lost Nation, but a lost ship, lost documents belong to an eccentric Victorian botanist, and a mysterious plant not seen in a century, that might save, or take, countless lives.
As the ghosts begin to gather, Gamache realises that the body on the grave is far from the only death. To solve the crime and avert catastrophe he must look to rancid secrets and old lies no longer dead and buried.
'It's not difficult to see why Penny and her fans have come to regard Three Pines as a refuge in a chaotic and alarming world'
Sunday Times
'Penny has no peer in her ability to situate the lives of sympathetic characters within such elaborate and thrilling storylines'
Wall Street Journal
'Nobody does evil quite as scarily as Louise Penny'
Ann Cleeves










