The banter feels natural and genuinely affectionate. Like all long-term relationships, there’s a history that lies under the surface of all the actions and dialogue. I think many passionate Penny fans would agree that we love the sense of community in these books, and we love feeling included in that community of Three Pines, with its endearing, imperfect, and quirky inhabitants. It’s the relationships between the characters that matters to me. Honestly, I don’t read Penny’s novels for the mystery. But around page 100, things picked up and I enjoyed the rest of the story. This might be reading burn-out rather than a fault of the book I don’t know. Even fifty or sixty pages in, I was uncertain whether I wanted to continue reading. It took me a while to warm up to this novel. Only now she’s on the streets again, a junkie looking for her next big fix.Ĭan she lead Gamache to the new drug–or will she die in the process? It could decimate the addicts on the streets of Montreal. Addicts like Amelia Choquet, the former junkie-turned-Surete-cadet, one of Gamache’s mentees. No one knows where it is or what drug cartel is preparing to release it.īut it’s powerful. Six months ago, he had made a decision to allow a deadly opiod to pass over the Canadian border. Gamache has more than this to investigate. Could the terms of this will be behind this death? She also preferred to be called “Baroness.” Was this woman delusional? It seems likely.

The will is bizarre: it leaves millions of dollars to her children (though she obviously was not a multimillionaire), requests the sales of buildings in Vienna and elsewhere, and passes a royal title to her eldest son. His friend Myrna and a young builder named Benedict are also named as executors.

There he learns that he is an executor of the estate of one Bertha Baumgartner. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, still suspended from duty, has received a letter summoning him to an abandoned farmhouse.

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