All the Devils Are Here
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On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man's life.
When a strange key is found in Stephen's possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Sûreté, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d'Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art.
It sends them deep into the secrets Armand's godfather has kept for decades.
A gruesome discovery in Stephen's Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized.
Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. His own family.
For even the City of Light casts long shadows. And in that darkness devils hide.
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17 primary books18 released books#16 in Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries
Chief Inspector Gamache Mysteries is a 18-book series with 17 released primary works first released in 2005 with contributions by Louise Penny.
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An Inspector Gamache, #16, and quite possibly the best yet. All the action happens in Paris, to where the Gamache's traveled for the birth of Annie's second child. Every member of the Gamache family is put in peril by events that force Gamache to initiate an investigation into wrongdoings by an engineering company where his son-in-law recently took a job. Very twisty turny and hard to know who the good guys are. Loved it.
My least favorite Gamache book thus far. I realize I said that last book, but I mean it this time.
The Gamaches are in Paris for the birth of a grandchild, but get sucked into a murder mystery when a close family friend is involved in a hit-and-run accident outside a restaurant. Not long after, a body is found within the family friend's residence, and the case starts quickly spiraling out from there. Soon, Gamache is chasing down leads involving corporate espionage and coverup murders, and it's not until the end that we finally learn who's side everyone is on.
Rather than feeling like a traditional Gamache twisty murder mystery, this felt more like Gamache-and-friends were dumped into a generic corporate espionage thriller plot. I know thrillers have their fans out there, but the incredibly fast paced action of this book didn't feel very....Gamache-like. All throughout Paris, I couldn't help but think about how much I missed Canada and Three Pines and the friends that have become mainstays in these books up until this point, and it really took me out of the current book's setting. I realize this was an attempt to keep the series fresh, but it just felt too far removed from what I loved about the other fifteen books.
All that said, I did like the role Reine-Marie played in this one, and I really hope she keeps it in the following books.
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