I’m not a huge fan of these books. I prefer the TV series, actually.

But if YOU like them — this is one of the best.

A World of Curiosities is the 18th novel in a series featuring the fictional character Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.

The 2022 crime mystery follows the investigation of a series of murders in Quebec.

We learn that Gamache decided to go into Homicide after being one of the responding officers in the1989 École Polytechnique massacre. Fourteen women were murdered; another 10 women and 4 men injured. The killer was a 25-year-old white male who legally purchased a lightweight semi-automatic rifle, systematically planning to murder women at his former school.

Canadians mark the day of the killings with a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. 

Curiosities is a sequel to Penny’s 2021 book The Madness of Crowds.

… features siblings Sam and Fiona Arsenault, whose mother Clotilde was killed after subjecting them both to sexual abuse in their younger years. …

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