A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 11, by Louise Penny, 2015, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2015, Macmillan Audio

A young boy who has a penchant for fantasy comes into the Bistro in Three Pines and announces that he has found a big gun with a horrible image on it in the woods. He tries to get retired Inspector Gamache to come with him to see it. Gamache doesn’t believe him and takes him home instead. The next day the boy is found dead in a ravine.

This book is interesting as it incorporates world events, particularly by referencing Saddam Hussein and other world arms dealers. The ending, however, is a bit of a letdown as I have found with other Louise Penny books. She usually picks up the things she didn’t resolve in subsequent books. I will plow ahead to see if that’s the case.

Note that the narrator of Penny’s previous audiobooks, Ralph Cosham, died after narrating book 10 and this is the first one narrated by Robert Bathurst. I was sorry to hear of Ralph’s death as he was, for me, the real Armand Gamache as well as the other Three Pines characters. Robert does a good job and I am sure I will get accustomed to his narration, but I still miss Ralph.