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All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
5.0

Louise Penny wrote that “[t]his book is about love, about belonging. About family and friendship. It’s about how lives are shaped by our perceptions, by not just our memories, but how we remember things. It’s about choices. And courage.” It is about all this and so much more.

In this sixteenth novel in the Armand Gamache series, Gamache and his wife, Reine-Marie, travel to Paris to be present when their fourth grandchild is born. Gamache welcomes the opportunity to spend time with his ninety-something godfather, Stephen. When Stephen is severely injured by a hit-and-run truck driver, Gamache and his family’s lives careen into a darkness so complex, so awful they might not survive their trip to hell.

If you are a fan of the Gamache series be prepared for something much darker than the previous fifteen books. Under no circumstance can you give up on this book because by the time you get to the final pages, you will have to pause to whisper, “I did not see that coming” more than once.

If you’re new to the Gamache series, you will undoubtedly enjoy this book, and by the end, you’ll be looking for the previous books in the series to binge read before the next book is published.

My thanks to Minotaur and Edelweiss for an eARC.