All The Devils Are Here by Louise Penny was published in 2020. I was amazed recently when I realised that I was three books behind with this Three Pines series, I don’t know how that happened.
This was a good read despite it being set mainly in Paris and Three Pines only featuring very briefly at the end. There are quite a few mentions of delicious French pastries though, no calories involved!
With the Gamache adult children now settled in Paris Armand and his wife Reine-Marie have travelled to visit them and Armand’s godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. The family reunion meal ends in disaster though as Stephen is knocked down and badly injured as they leave the restaurant.
Gamache is sure that it wasn’t an accident and when the personal effects that Reine-Marie had picked up from the road after the accident also include a mysterious key, his investigation leads to him wondering if his godfather is really who he purported to be. Was he in the Resistance in Paris during the war – or was he a collaborator?
It’s just about impossible to sort out the baddies from the goodies, but I can’t really say too much more without mentioning possible spoilers – so I’ll leave it at that – apart from saying that at the end Three Pines does make a brief appearance. I so want to visit the bistro!
I love this series but I’m further behind than you are. About to read Kingdom of the Blind. Did you watch the tv series on Amazon?
Sandra,
No I didn’t even realise it had been dramatised. I don’t have Amazon, I don’t think I would get my money’s worth! I would have watched that though. Did you see it?
I did see it. Alfred Molina plays Gamache and does a good job. This series used books 2 and 3 with an additional plotline involving indigenous women who go missing with seemingly little effort from the police to trace them. It was well integrated into the ongoing storyline in the books about corrupt officers. I enjoyed it but there’s room to flesh out the main characters, especially the Three Pines residents. And the writers have made the series quite dark which is a pity in my opinion. It was good though. Maybe it will trickle onto other channels eventually.
Sandra,
I can see Alfred Molina as Gamache. It’s so long since I read books 2 and 3 so I can’t remember the details. So many of her books feature corrupt officers,officials or politicians, but sadly that seems to be the norm nowadays. I’ll definitely watch it if it appears on a channel I have.
My mother has resisted reading the books but is enjoying the series. I really liked this one which I read around the time I was in Paris. I went to the Rodin Museum on a very hot and sticky day. I wondered if maybe Penny’s French publisher had begged her to set a book there but maybe it was more of a palate cleanser. Gamache’s son seems a pain.
Constance,
I suppose that there are only so many murders and nefarious goings on that can visit a small village in Quebec! At least Midsomer Murders includes a lot of different villages. It’s good to read books that are set in the place that you actually are, it’s amazing how often this has happened to me – inadvertently. Yes Gamache’s son is indeed a pain – hard work!