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But, as they think of how they would have acted if Annie had been murdered, do they really want to stop him? And then the case takes some unexpected turns, which I will not reveal here. Gamache and Beauvoir have to prevent Vivienne’s father from killing her husband.

The case also becomes personal to Gamache and Beauvoir, since the dead woman had much in common with Annie, Gamache’s daughter and Beauvoir’s wife, who, as it turns out, is also pregnant.

Vivienne’s father becomes increasingly unstable as it looks more and more as if her husband will walk free. But Gamache and Beauvoir cannot find enough evidence to convict him in court. The forensic evidence shows that her death was murder, not suicide or an accidental drowning, and everything points to her husband as the killer. As Gamache and Beauvoir struggle to prevent the river near Three Pines from flooding, they find Vivienne’s body in the river. The man’s pregnant daughter, Vivienne, has gone missing, and her father thinks her abusive husband killed her. In the midst of this crisis, a grieving father approaches Gamache. Penny’s images of the floods are unforgettable-some of the most powerful images in the whole series. Catastrophic floods threaten to devastate Québec, and the politicians who were responsible for Gamache’s demotion will not take his advice on how to prevent widespread destruction. Beauvoir is about to leave the Sûreté to take a job in Paris. Gamache has been demoted as a result of his actions in the previous book, and he is back in his old position as head of homicide, reporting to his former second-in-command, and son-in-law, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, which is an awkward situation for both of them. Penny’s books make you want to move to Three Pines-in spite of the high murder rate for such a tiny town. For readers of the series, the residents of Three Pines become like old friends: the artist Clara, bookstore owner Myrna, Olivier and his partner Gabri, who own the bistro, and the cantankerous old poet Ruth. Gamache and his wife Reine-Marie, a retired librarian, live in the tiny village of Three Pines, which is so small that it does not appear on any map.

A Better Man is the latest entry in Louise Penny’s long-running mystery series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, former head of the Sûreté de Québec.