67 pages 2 hours read

Louise Penny

The Grey Wolf

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

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Chapters 40-47Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 40 Summary

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of death and graphic violence.

Gauthier was the shooter, and his shots hit Yves several times. Armand holds Yves’s hands and prays as he dies. In addition, Gauthier kills the woman who signaled the driver to kill Charles, claiming that she shot at Yves. Jeanne and her assistant escape, but a trail of blood reveals that Jeanne was hurt too. Armand takes Jean-Guy’s gun, puts it to Gauthier’s head, and orders him to drop his weapon. After he does so, Armand has Jean-Guy cuff Gauthier to a pew. Armand thinks that Gauthier is lying about the dead woman and demands that he share information about the attack. Gauthier is unhelpful.

Armand orders Jean-Guy to cancel the conference call and start a police search for Jeanne and the car she escaped in. When he covers Yves’s corpse with the altar cloth, Armand sees a copy of the same picture of Yves with his sister and niece, Jeanne, in Yves’s pocket. Jean-Guy thinks that Jeanne is telling the truth because she was injured by Gauthier’s gunfire, but Armand argues that she could be planning to blackmail Lauzon and that’s why she was attacked.