12 Books More Scandalous Than Scandal

A disappearance, a mystery, and a frantic search for truth make for a thriller like no other. Retired head of homicide Armand Gamache and his wife have just settled in a Quebec village when 9-year-old Laurent Lepage disappears. Lepage, famous in the village for crying wolf, told extraordinary lies about aliens, beasts in the woods, walking trees, and dinosaurs outside the village. But as the desperate search for him begins, the search also unfurls a series of murder, crimes, and betrayal, and the sinking fear that Lepage may have not been crying wolf at all . . .