Ginny Greene is a Star Tribune copy editor. A 2022 Book Signing Event - Louise Penny signed first edition book A World of Curiosities Now Available Choose from over 50000 books from the premier. You will get hooked, and eventually you will devour those stories, too. Has he escaped, or is he performing monstrous miracles from prison?ĭon't be afraid to dive into Penny's latest installment if you haven't read the previous books. The trail leads to a despicable mass killer whom Gamache prosecuted and delivered to a maximum-security prison years before. Gamache sets off with his eclectic team to hunt down the painter - and the answers to the riddles it holds. INSTANT 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in 1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. We are in good hands with Armand Gamache and the residents of Three Pines. What is inside shakes the townsfolk to the core: a painting, morbid and detailed, containing clues to stories none of them care to acknowledge. A World of Curiosities continues Penny’s empathetic investigation into the human condition. Meanwhile, a letter from a dead stonemason has been sent, referring to a hidden room in an attic. Armand is thrilled to see the girl, but he's shaken by the brother's reappearance. Armand befriended the girl, but shunned the brother, in whom he saw a brooding cruelty.Īfter many years, the siblings reappear. Years before, Armand rescued a young girl and boy from an abusive life.

All of the quirky characters are back, plus a few new faces that bring a dark dimension to the ensemble.Ĭhief Inspector Gamache and his wife, Reine-Marie, are the heartbeat of the village. Penny adds crucial details about Gamaches backstory and satisfactorily resolves a plotline tease from earlier in the series. Have we really been through 18 books in the stellar Armand Gamache series?Ĭanadian author Louise Penny reaches a crescendo with her latest tale from Three Pines, a wondrous hamlet outside Montreal. It first appears to be a duplicate of The Paston Treasure, a cryptic 17th-century assemblage of items known as A World of Curiosities, but anachronistic elements, such as a digital watch, have been added.

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