Gamache’s love is put to the test when someone in a van tries to run down his godfather, sending him to the hospital near death. Penny will return to that theme at the end of the book, when someone observes: “It’s an amazing thing, to be willing to die for each other.” Their reunion takes place in the garden of the Musée Rodin, where the haunting statue of “The Burghers of Calais,” headed for the gallows to save their town, moves them to reflect on the notion of self-sacrifice. Gamache and his wife, Reine-Marie, are in Paris to attend the birth of their fourth grandchild, which gives Gamache the chance to visit his godfather, Stephen Horowitz. Over the course of this endearing series of village mysteries, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec has examined so many corpses and caught so many murderers that the Canadian hamlet of Three Pines must be running out of bodies, both warm and cold.
It is just Penny's ability to make one so involved with the characters that you ache when they are not there.Louise Penny sends her Canadian detective to Paris in ALL THE DEVILS ARE HERE (Minotaur, 448 pp., $28.99) - and not a moment too soon. However, that is not a criticism of the book at all. I really enjoyed it, but kept missing the old folks back home. Uncovering the multilayered plot becomes the central issue of the book with an emphasis on family love, togetherness, and actions based on miscommunication.
Stephen is hit by a hit-and-run driver and another person is found dead in his quarters.
The plot felt much more involved and accelerated from her previous books, as the others were characterized by a languid gait. It turns out that those declarations would prove to unlock a sizable mystery. His godfather Stephen meets him in Rodin's garden but delivers some quirky comments. The whole Gamache family is in Paris and his daughter is about to give birth. Set in Paris this novel takes a different tack. When I read these books it felt like I was coming home, sitting at my desk with a cold beer on a hot day. I have loved all of Penny's books about Chief Inspector Gamache and the quirky inhabitants of Three Pines.
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