Between 18, more black people were lynched in Mississippi than in any other state. The majority of the people in the state were perpetually robbed of the vote-a hijacking engineered through the trickery of the poll tax and the muscle of the lynch mob. In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy. When he first tried to get a legitimate mortgage, he was denied mortgages were effectively not available to black people. For both Amelia Choquet and Armand Gamache, the time has come for a great reckoning.Clyde Ross, photographed in November 2013 in his home in the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, where he has lived for more than 50 years. The frantic search for answers takes the investigators back to Three Pines and a stained glass window with its own horrific secrets. The focus of the investigation soon turns to Gamache himself and his mysterious relationship with Amelia, and his possible involvement in the crime. Amelia is more likely to be found on the other side of a police line-up.
Everywhere Gamache turns, he sees Amelia Choquet, one of the cadets. And, with the body, a copy of the old, odd map.
And there he finds four young cadets in the S ret academy, and a dead professor. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the S ret du Qu bec to places even he is afraid to go. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. 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. #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. People " A Great Reckoning succeeds on every level.
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