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AudioBook information:
Author: Louise Penny
Narrated by: Alfred Molina
Release date: October 20, 2026
Audiobook Duration: 13 h 42 min
Summary:Â Armand Gamache returns!
This program is read by Alfred Molina, who previously starred in the Three Pines series on Prime Video and includes acknowledgements read by the author.
“[Narrator Alfred] Molina’s intense, intelligent performance makes the novel’s bizarre circumstances believable, terrifying, and compelling.” —Kirkus Reviews (Earphones Award Winner)
“There’s a body in Lost Nation.”
“Where?” demands Armand as he scribbles on the pad by his bed.
But the line goes dead before Chief Inspector Gamache can question the caller.
The head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec has no idea where Lost Nation is, or who woke him in the small hours of the morning at his home in Three Pines. What he does know is that the man was terrified.
And so Armand is thrust out of a deep sleep and into the surrounding forests in search of the mythical Lost Nation. And a body.
When he and his team of Jean-Guy Beauvoir and Isabelle Lacoste find both, the situation only grows more bizarre. The unidentified dead man appears to be from an era more than a century old. He’s lying in a long-abandoned cemetery, on top of a grave with a date, but no name.
Adding to the mystery, the early morning call appears to have come from Gamache’s friend and neighbor, Clara Morrow. While she denies any knowledge of it, it becomes clear there is some connection between her, the Morrow family, and Lost Nation.
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 murder investigation deepens, nightmarish spectres from the past begin to haunt the Sûreté officers, only heightened by the appearance of one of Gamache’s former and now disgraced proteges, with whom he must form an uneasy alliance.
As the ghosts begin to gather, Gamache, Beauvoir, and Lacoste, with the help of Reine-Marie, Clara, and the other villagers of Three Pines, realize that the body on the grave is far from the only death. To solve the crime and avert catastrophe they must look to rancid secrets and old lies no longer dead and buried.
“Even newcomers will be caught up in the intricate plot and Molina’s stellar performance.” —Booklist (Starred Review)
Reviews:
ONE OF AARP’S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL
ONE OF CRIMEREADS’ MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL
“An intriguing puzzle offered in elegant golden-age detective-fiction prose… readers should savor every bite and every word.”―Booklist, starred review
“A superpowered mystery shrouded in mysticism and history whose power endures past its closing revelations.”―Kirkus Reviews
“Exceptional…While readers will be entranced by the wide circle of suspects, Penny gives this entry its power through her empathic exploration of her characters’ humanity, with many key plot points hinging on thorny questions of individual morality. The author’s combination of tight plotting and psychological depth continues to place her in a class of her own.”―Publishers Weekly, starred review
About the Author:
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 worldwide, 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 Retrievers Muggins and Charlie in a village south of Montréal.