In their search through Paris they discover some dark secrets of Horowitz’s earlier life.

Gamache feels it was a deliberate act and sets out to prove it.While investigating the matter, Gamache calls on his previous second-in-command, Beauvoir, for assistance, along with his wife, Reine-Marie. Leaving the restaurant after an enjoyable meal, Horowitz is struck down by a hit and run driver and is critically injured right before the Gamache’s eyes. Read moreĬhief Inspector Armand Gamache and his wife are in Paris to visit his godfather, Stephen Horowitz. His own family.įor even the City of Light casts long shadows. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. It sends them deep into the secrets Armand’s godfather has kept for decades.Ī gruesome discovery in Stephen’s Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized. When a strange key is found in Stephen’s possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Sûreté, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d’Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man’s life.

On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand’s godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light LIBRARY JOURNAL - ONE OF THE BEST CRIME FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR KIRKUS REVIEWS - ONE OF THE BEST MYSTERIES/THRILLERS OF THE YEAR GLOBE AND MAIL - TOP 100 BOOKS OF THE YEARĬHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR PARADE MAGAZINE – ONE OF FALL'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKSĬRIMEREADS – ONE OF THE BEST TRADITIONAL MYSTERIES OF THE YEAR

All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny