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Inspector Armand Gamache, the courtly French Canadian hero of 18 bestselling novels by author Louise Penny, has solved numerous grisly crimes throughout his career with the ��û�����é du Québec.

Marcel Savard, a former deputy chief and 40-year veteran of the ��û�����é du Québec, Quebec’s provincial police force, for which Gamache works in the books, said he appreciated the inspector’s relentlessness and humanity.

They first worked together, when Gamache was head of homicide for the ��û�����é du Québec, on the murder of an addict and sex worker named Clotilde Arsenault.

The Montreal Gazette, citing reporting from the French language ��û�����é du Québec, described the event as a "targeted shooting."

As head of homicide for the ��û�����é du Québec, this is an unusual request for him, but he readily agrees.