Břicho nestvůry – Pennyová Louise (2020)

Not a day goes by that nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't raise the alarm. According to him, the village of Three Pines is constantly threatened by some terrible danger, from alien invasions to walking trees, winged monsters, and even dinosaurs spotted in the village square. However, everyone, including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the Quebec village, is convinced that he simply has too vivid an imagination. After all, who would believe his crazy stories? But when the boy suddenly goes missing, it seems that perhaps he wasn't lying about everything. Thus begins a frantic search for the boy and the truth, and what the villagers discover in the woods triggers a chain of events that leads to murder, which in turn leads to an old crime and that to an old betrayal. And that leads to the door of a bitter old poetess.
And now it is here, the shadow, writes Ruth Zard, already reaching for you. A monster once visited Three Pines, and it took deep root there. And Ruth knows that it is back now.
Armand Gamache, former head of the homicide department of the Sureté du Québec, is meanwhile grappling with his own conscience. For it is possible that by not believing the boy, he bears some responsibility for the horrific events that follow.