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CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Acknowledgments

Also by Louise Penny

About the Author

Copyright

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

 

A GREAT RECKONING.
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Excerpts from “Half-hanged Mary” from
Morning in the Burned House: New Poems
by Margaret Atwood. In the U.S.: Copyright © 1995 by Margaret Atwood. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. In Canada: Copyright © O. W. Toad. Reprinted by permission of McClelland & Stewart, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited.

 

Excerpts from “Herman Melville,” copyright © 1940 and renewed 1968 by W. H. Auden; from
W. H. Auden Collected Poems
by W. H. Auden. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

 

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

 

Names: Penny, Louise, author.

Title: A great reckoning / Louise Penny.

Description: First Edition.|New York: Minotaur Books, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016019580|ISBN 9781250022134 (hardback)|ISBN 9781250022127 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Gamache, Armand (Fictitious character)—Fiction.|Police— Quebec (Province)—Fiction.|Murder—Investigation—Fiction.|BISAC: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British.|GSAFD: Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PR9199.4.P464 G74 2016|DDC 813/.6—dc23

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First Edition: August 2016