The novel “A Time of Betrayal” continues a series of investigations by Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. This charming character was created by the pen of Louise Penny, the world's only five-time Agatha Christie Award winner. The psychological acuity and dynamism of the narrative inherent in all Penny detectives promise the reader an exciting journey through the twists and turns of the plot right up to the denouement. For Armand Gamache, difficult times have come. His most faithful and devoted assistant turned his back on his mentor. The homicide department, which Gamache painstakingly created over many years, was disbanded, all employees were transferred to other departments, and in their place were idle people and insolent people. Gamache himself is being forced to resign in every possible way. But before he does that, he must do one last investigation. He receives a message from the village of Three Pines that a friend of Myrna Landers, who promised to come to her for Christmas, has disappeared. Starting the search for the missing woman, Gamache still does not know that under the name Constance Pinault was hiding one of the most famous personalities not only of Canada or North America, but of the whole world... For the first time in Russian!