Remove one, and the thing did not happen.” Only the first and least of the outrages Gamache and his team will uncover inĮnd of this visit to the past, Jean Guy Beauvoir has become a member of theĬoincidence, but in Gamache’s experience, almost everything that happened was theĮnd result of a series of apparently unconnected events. He is outraged by this oversight of the surette officer in charge at the ‘s children, Fiona, 13, and Sam, 9, Gamache discovers that the children haveīeen left alone for the few days after their mother was reported missing, and Delivering the news of her death to Clotilde Arsenault Identification is easy due to a driver’s license and her reputation around the Montreal to a desolate place where Lac Plongeon sits, hours northeast ofĭiscovered in a shallow part of the lake, who carries pictures of herself and Observational skills and passion to get things right. Have easily been the last, but Gamache sees past Beauvoir’s surly behavior, at his Station and bringing him into the light of day and the heart of an investigation. Gamache fans will be very happy with is that we finally get a front row seat toĪrmand Gamache finding Jean Guy Beauvoir in the basement of a Surrette detachment Surprise anyone who has read this book or read any of Louise’s books that Iĭigs deep into the darkness to shine a light on it, exposing it and knowing it That something had occurred is there, not the occurrence. It’s not a book focusing on the abuse or even I knew she had something important to tell me,Īnd it’s the repercussions of the abuse that figure into the story. Horror of something with hope, of making the look at evil have meaning. I was tempted to quit reading, but it cameĭown to a matter of faith in Louise Penny’s stories, in her ability to tell the The subject matter of the child abuse, sexual abuse, distresses me. Of forgiveness.”īeginning of A World of Curiosities was a hard read for me.

Man’s eyes, inviting him to set aside for a moment the great brutality thatĮxisted and to remember the acts of greater courage.

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