The release date for the English version of 'A World of Curiosities' by
Louise Penny is Nov 2022. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
In the eighteenth volume of #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's cherished series, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache makes a triumphant comeback.
After a hard winter, Three Pines is making a comeback in the spring. However, not everything buried needs to resurface. Not everything that is dormant need to come back to life.
But it has happened.
Concern grows between Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir as the townspeople get ready for a unique festival. After a long absence, a young man and lady have resurfaced in the life of the Sûreté du Québec investigators. while their unstable mother was killed while they were young, the two were left broken and injured. They have now reached Three Pines Village.
To what end though?
Recollections of that sad case, which first brought Gamache and Beauvoir together, flood back. Did the murder of their mother do these kids irreversible harm? Have those horrific wounds, which were covered up for many years, begun to fester and are they ready to burst?
Chief Inspector Gamache's concern increases as he searches for solutions and finds a letter addressed to a long-dead stonemason. The guy writes of his horror when he bricked up an attic chamber in the hamlet. The 160-year-old letter is rife with terror in every word. The villagers choose to unlock the chamber after discovering it.
When the bricks are taken out, Gamache, Beauvoir, and the locals find themselves in a curious environment. However, the head of homicide quickly discovers that the room is not as empty as it seems. There are secret messages announcing mayhem and retaliation, as well as riddles within puzzles.
An ancient foe is let loose into their world when they open that chamber. in their existence. went right into Armand Gamache's home.