A World of Curiosities

sehr gut, einmal vorsichtig gelesen. Kleiner Knick auf S.7

As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators lives after many years. The two were young children when thwir troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they have arrived in the village of Three Pines. But to what end?
Gamache and Beauvoir s memoriesof that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother s murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt?
As Chief Inspector works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. When the room is found, the villagers decoide to open it up.
As the bricks are removed, Gamache, beavoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there is more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayem and revenge.
In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache s home.

k.A.