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The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny

Your reading group could win a set of ten copies of the atmospheric, autumnal and page-turning new crime novel by award-winning writer Louise Penny.

We have three sets of ten copies to be won. In return we would love you to tweet us @TheCrimeVault @LittleBrownUK with your thoughts #LouisePenny or on Facebook tagging us @TheCrimeVault @louisepennyauthor.

Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn’t cry wolf. His boundless sense of adventure and vivid imagination mean he has a tendency to concoct stories so extraordinary and so far-fetched that no one can possibly believe him.

But when Laurent disappears, former Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true.

So begins a frantic search for the boy and the truth. And what Gamache uncovers deep in the forest leads back to crimes of the past, betrayal and murder, with more sinister consequences than anyone could have possibly imagined . . .

From number one bestseller Louise Penny comes an ingenious, powerful and page-turning novel that will hold you in its grip until the final page.

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