I guessed some of the twists, but it didn't spoil my enjoyment of the read. "It was both his saving grace and his blind spot."Ĭontact Colette Bancroft at or (727) 893-8435.Summary: It's the 14th novel in the series and this time we move outside the village of Three Pines. Later, his friend and colleague Lacoste, whose life he both endangered and saved, will think about "this steady man in front of her, who believed everyone could be saved. A focus so sharp that everything around it blurred. He's a man with a tremendous amount to lose.Įarly in Kingdom of the Blind, he meditates on the things that can ruin a case or even end a life: "The threat didn't have to be monumental. Those bonds explain his integrity and tender heart, and they also heighten the tension between the warm world of Three Pines and the dark violence Gamache so often encounters on his job. Penny paints them all with humor and affection, and their eccentricities and diverse kinds of intelligence enliven the books immeasurably. He not only has a deliriously happy, long marriage to the equable Reine-Marie, plus beloved children and grandchildren he also has, in Three Pines, a close-knit and loyal circle of friends. But she might not have been who they think she was at all. As for who on earth Bertha was, they figure that out quickly.
But even Mercier can't explain her connection to the trio, having inherited her as a client from his late father without ever meeting her.Īs a blizzard - which Penny describes so evocatively I reached for a blanket as I read - isolates a group of people at Gamache's cozy house, he and his friends try to puzzle out why the liquidators were chosen. Her will contains considerable surprises. The elderly Bertha died peacefully in a nursing home the farmhouse, about to collapse from years of neglect, was hers. The weird part is that none of them know who she is, or why she might have chosen them. The reason for the meeting, Mercier tells them, is that a woman named Bertha Baumgartner has named them as liquidators of her estate (what in the United States would be called executors). One is Gamache's close friend and neighbor, psychologist turned bookstore owner Myrna Landers, a no-nonsense woman given to observations like "I'm always suspicious of people who seem too well balanced." The other is an engaging young man from Montreal whom none of them know, Benedict Pouliot. Besides the notary, Lucien Mercier, an odd little chap with minimal social skills, two other people are at the ramshackle, snowbound farmhouse. Gamache doesn't know the notary and has no connection to the meeting place - both of which are unusual in a town so small - so curiosity sends him there.
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