
Gamache is never one to back away, no matter how difficult and dangerous the road to justice weaves. Another unpredictable and excellent plot. In Kingdom of the Blind, Penny wraps up some continuing story lines and sends recurring characters in unexpected directtions.

These are just a few and this in why I am always eager for a new Louise Penny release. Whether major or minor, all the details play a part in the story. Driving techniques for the dead of winter in Quebec Preparation to launch opiods onto the streets Legal plot points where there is a will

Her research gives insight into the elements she presents: - Banking,investing,embezzling Louise Penny packs her stories with intriguing details. Penny artfully weaves her numerous, well developed characters into an intricate story line that will keep you a bit “blind” and guessing until its conclusion. Working two stories back and forth throughout the novel keeps everyone on alert. Armand is thankful for the aide of his son-in-law, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, a fellow police inspector, in the resolution of both investigations. Gamache races for answers and recovery before it hits the streets.įaced with two ongoing crimes, Gamache begins to see his own “blind”spots, and the terrible things hidden there. Enough narcotic to kill thousands has surfaced in Montreal. While most of the opiods he allowed to slip through his hands, in order to bring down the cartels, have been retrieved, there is one devastating exception. The investigation into what happened six months ago – the events that led to his suspension – has dragged on into winter. His second investigation, which is simultaneous to the first, takes him to the city. Gamache isn’t far from Montreal, when at home in Three Pines. When a body is found, the terms of the bizarre will seem less peculiar and far more menacing.

At first, the three executors also presume that the fortune and title are not real. Her will bequeathes this fortune to her three children, who all believe her to be delusional.

A lineage and legacy that makes her extremely wealthy. However, Bertha Baumgartner swears to an ancestral background rooted in Vienna, Austria. Locally, the “Baroness” is known as a cleaning woman of modest means. Gamache, Myrna Lander, the village bookseller, and a young builder are all summoned to an abandoned farmhouse at the request of deceased Bertha “Baroness” Baumgartner to be the executors of her will. The first story line begins as a Three Pines local mystery. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, six months into his suspension from the Surete du Quebec, finds himself involved in two separate criminal investigations. For Penny fans, this read will be a welcome return to Three Pines, an inviting Quebeec village, and to its inhabitants.
