


That is especially true this time, in an episode with tentacles stretching deep into European and familial history-tentacles that, once untangled, reveal how generations of secrets have led to murder. The past not only hangs heavily on the residents of Three Pines it also drives the crimes that Gamache, now suspended from his position as head of the Sûreté du Québec, investigates.

In this fourteenth episode of Penny’s celebrated Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, the cumulative effect of past events has imbued the entire cast with an ever-deepening sense of the perilous nature of life, creating an internal landscape that stands in stark but richly meaningful contrast to the wood-smoke-infused calm we’ve come to expect from the series’ primary setting, the Quebec village of Three Pines.
