Once again Chief Inspector Gamache takes a walk on the dark side. A series of seemingly unrelated crimes all point to the possibility of a catastrophic event. There are quite a few references to the crises from earlier novels but all are well explained. The title of this book and one of the major themes of the story references a Native American legend. It seems that inside each of us lives the spirit of two wolves. The grey wolf is kind, generous, caring. The black wolf is vengeful, greedy, angry. As the story goes, the wolf who wins is the one we feed. Once again Gamache finds himself often unable to rely on who is actually friend and who might be foe and must wonder if this is one of the times when he must admit that he was/is wrong. My only complaint with this book is that so little of it happens in Three Pines. When the companion book, the Black Wolf comes out in 2025, I will look forward to spending more time with the rest of my Three Pine friends.
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