all the devils are here louise penny review

Hoo, boy, there is so much negligence going on in All the Devils are Here. They might need several kidneys to pay that bill. “If there was a trap to step into, Daniel would find it.”Īs for the smear the bad guys are planning on Stephen…jesus… Armand is quite vehement in his defense of Stephen…and I gotta say the man’s history bears out Armand’s views. And the hostility seems to be expanding to include Annie and Jean-Guy when Daniel reveals their plans to move house. It’s too bad it takes such a horror to make a change in it. We finally learn what triggered the impasse between the so-very-hostile Daniel and Armand, and it’s so sad what started it and how long the confusion lasted. Whew, that’s quite the assignment Gossette hands Jean-Guy, and I’m feeling more bewildered than him.

It is curious that her prejudice is the only one in the police that is exposed. Less interesting is Fontaine’s attitude! Good lord. Hmmm, there’s an interesting theory on cologne and the effect the fragrance can have on coworkers. We also hear from Jean-Guy, Daniel, Dussault, Reine-Marie, and Stephen. Penny uses third person global subjective point-of-view, mainly from Gamache’s perspective. One story that sings throughout is that of The Burghers of Calais, a sacrifice that began with Eustache de Saint-Pierre and echoes the sacrifices forced on Armand by the politicians. The past pops up throughout the story, so much of it heartwarming with some of it quite sad. It continues with Armand remembering the horror of life after his parents were killed, and how his relationship with Stephen grounded him.

It begins with a look back at the day Armand proposed to Reine-Marie, a story that is told within the family with regularity. Sixteenth in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache mystery series and revolving around Armand Gamache and his family. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Still Life, A Fatal Grace, A Rule Against Murder, The Cruelest Month, The Brutal Telling, Bury Your Dead, The Hangman, A Trick of the Light, The Beautiful Mystery, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast, A Great Reckoning, Kingdom of the Blind, A Better Man It is part of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series and is a mystery in a Kindle edition that was published by Minotaur Books on Septemand has 443 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review.

All the devils are here louise penny review