Miss Wolcott's Ghost

The book opens with a call that goes dead before a single question can be asked. Tell us about a message or call you have received that left you wondering for days.

If you had to walk into Three Pines tonight and sit down with a drink in your hand, where would you plant yourself: the bistro fire, the bookshop, or a bench on the green? Why there?

This story keeps circling things that are lost: a ship, documents, a plant that no longer grows. Which of those losses tugged at you most, and did it surface anything you have lost and still think about?

Gamache investigates by listening more than pressing. How did his way of being in a room make you feel while reading, and do you know someone in your own life who holds space like that?

A place named Lost Nation sits at the heart of this book. What feelings did that name stir in you before you knew anything about it, and have you ever been somewhere that felt a little lost?

Penny lets friendship, food, and ordinary comfort sit right beside dread. Which small, warm moment in this book did you want to climb inside and stay in for a while?

By the end, something that seemed gone for good is understood differently. Without saying how it lands, what did this book leave you believing about whether loss is ever truly final?

Gamache, Beauvoir, and Lacoste carry two decades of shared history into this case. Where did you feel that history most, and what has your own longest friendship survived that changed its shape?