A flood is a curious thing; at times it may wash away sins of the past, or it may just deposit them right back to the shore. In the midst of a flood which threatens the smallest Quebecois townships, including beloved Three Pines, Chief Inspector Gamache returns to work, sharing the role of head of homicide with his right-hand man, Chief Inspector Beauvoir. As the two Chief Inspectors navigate their new power dynamic, they receive a plea from a distressed father whose daughter has gone missing. It is a race against time and nature to find out what happened to this woman, and old sins and feelings are bubbling up. The flood will leave nothing untouched.
This fifteenth novel in Louise Penny's Three Pines series is a bit different in a few ways. The investigative team that we know and love takes a more personal approach to this case (maybe too personal). A few different ideas are weaved together using social media, some of which are better fleshed out than others. Secondary story lines with old characters aren't introduced as smoothly as they have been. These differences from previous books in the series result in a Three Pines story that does not feel like Three Pines at all. Everyone we have come to know as smart and capable does something completely out of character--especially many of the women in this book, who are particularly misrepresented. Not my favorite book in the series so far
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