Miss Wolcott's Ghost

Miss Wolcott’s Ghost by Louise Penny is an atmospheric mystery novel that drops Chief Inspector Armand Gamache into a case that feels wrong from the very first phone call: “There’s a body in Lost Nation,” and then the line goes dead. Gamache and his team follow the thread to a forgotten cemetery and an unidentified corpse that seems to belong to another century, laid across an unmarked grave. Stranger still, the call appears to have come from Gamache’s neighbour, artist Clara Morrow—who insists she knows nothing about it. As questions multiply, the investigation draws Gamache beyond Three Pines into family history, missing papers linked to a Victorian botanist, and a rare plant with unsettling consequences. Perfect for readers who love Canadian crime fiction, literary detective stories, small-town secrets and history-laced suspense with a cool, eerie edge. Add it to your basket and let Lost Nation’s secrets unfold, page by page.