All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, 16)

Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of September 2020: If earlier Gamache books showed the detective’s preternatural kindness and steadfastness in the face of evil, All the Devils are Here sheds light on the tragedy out of which his steadfastness came, and the second family who taught him kindliness, empathy, and patience. The Gamache family—including Armand’s godfather: wealthy industrialist Stephen Horowitz—gather in Paris to await the birth of Annie’s and Jean-Guy’s daughter. But walking home from dinner that night, Stephen is mowed down by a passing van and it’s immediately clear to Gamache that this is no accident. To catch a would-be killer in the City of Light without the resources of the Sûreté at his back? Tough. But he has an old colleague he can call on to help, and a family that has his back, though some old tensions float to the surface. Despite this fascinating glimpse into the workings of the Gamache family, there will be those thinking: A Gamache book in which we don’t visit Three Pines until near the very end? Mais, non! Rest assured, Penny takes with one hand and gives with the other. The sixteenth entry in the series is essentially an origin story fans will love, one which sets up a complex whodunit which is also a whydunit, all of it buttressed by a Penny trademark: a canny mix of empathy, psychology, and suspense. —Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Book Review
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All the Devils Are Here, 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
On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand’s godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. 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.
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.
It sends them deep into the secrets Armand’s godfather has kept for decades.
A 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.
Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. His own family.
For even the City of Light casts long shadows. And in that darkness devils hide.