But the head of homicide soon realizes there’s more in that room than meets the eye. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up.Īs the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Did their mother’s murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt?Īs Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. Gamache and Beauvoir’s memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge.Īs the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. But not everything buried should come alive again.

It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. Louise lives in a small village south of Montréal.Ĭhief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny’s beloved series. In 2017, she received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture. She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (eight times), and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. LOUISE PENNY is the author of the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling series of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, and coauthor with Hillary Rodham Clinton of the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller State of Terror. Join #1 New York Times bestselling author, Louise Penny, to discuss her latest spellbinding novel, “A WORLD OF CURIOSITIES,” featuring the return of Chief Inspector Armand.

A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny