Bella Suartini

A World of Curiosities: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, 18)

Book by Louise Penny

DETAILS

Publisher : Minotaur Books (November 29, 2022) Language : English Hardcover : 400 pages ISBN-10 : 1250145295 ISBN-13 : 978-1250145291 Item Weight : 1.27 pounds Dimensions : 6.3 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches Best Sellers Rank: #44 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books) #4 in International Mystery & Crime (Books) #17 in Suspense Thrillers , Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines. But to what end? Gamache and Beauvoir’s memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother’s murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt? As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up. As the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there’s more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge. In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache’s home. Read more

REVIEW

A long awaited arrives and I spent two days enamored with the story. The story begins with the pairing of Gamache and Jean-Guy that happened many years prior due to the new case involving the murder of a young mother. Clotilde Arsenault’s body washes ashore and Gamache must tell her children: a 13-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son. As Gamache and Jean-Guy delve deeper into the investigation many horrors surface. Gamache and Jean-Guy must separate fact from fiction. The murderer of Clotilde is arrested and sentenced. The story jumps ahead to a graduation ceremony where Clotilde’s daughter, Fiona, graduates as an engineer. A hidden room in Myrna’s loft uncovers many secrets from the past and a huge montage canvass. Supposedly, the room was sealed closed many centuries ago. This leads Gamache to the worst of his fears with the escape of John Fleming. I adore the Biblical quotations and the poems scattered throughout the book. I so enjoyed the book that I neglected household chores in order to discover the ending.

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