Kingdom Of The Blind Pdf is a Detective Crime Fiction Mystery Thriller written by Louise Penny. It is The Fourteenth book in the Inspector Armand Gamache series.
Kingdom Of The Blind Book Summary
When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder. None of them had ever met the elderly woman.
The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional. But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly sane?
When a body is found, the terms of the bizarre suddenly seem less peculiar and far more menacing. But it isn’t the only menace Gamache is facing. The investigation into what happened six months ago—the events that led to his suspension—has dragged on, into the dead of winter. And while most of the opioids he allowed to slip through his hands, in order to bring down the cartels, have been retrieved, there is one devastating exception. Enough narcotic to kill thousands has disappeared into inner-city Montréal. With the deadly drug about to hit the streets, Gamache races for answers.
As he uses increasingly audacious, even desperate, measures to retrieve the drug, Armand Gamache begins to see his own blind spots. And the terrible things hiding there.
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About Louise Penny Author Of Kingdom Of The Blind Pdf Book
Louise Penny Author Of Kingdom Of The Blind Pdf is the author of the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling series of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (seven times), and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. In 2017, she received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture. Louise lives in a small village south of Montréal.
Kingdom Of The Blind pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Minotaur Books; First Edition (November 27, 2018)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 400 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1250066204
- ISBN-13 : 978-1250066206
- Item Weight : 1.35 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.28 x 1.39 x 9.64 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #96,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #809 in International Mystery & Crime (Books)
- #1,041 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books)
- #3,432 in Cozy Mysteries (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.7 out of 5 stars 9,399 ratings
Kingdom Of The Blind Book Reviews
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5.0 out of 5 stars Kingdom of the Blind is another excellent Inspector Gamache novel by Canadian Louise Penny
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 22, 2022
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Kingdom of the Blind is the 14th book in the Inspector Amand Gamache series of murder mystery novels by Louise Penny. This intricate and well plotted novel begins when Inspector Gamache is called to be executor of a woman’s will. Also called to the ramshackle farmhouse owned by the late woman are Three Pines resident Myrna Landers bookstore owner and Benedict, a young building contractor from Montreal.. None of them knew the dead woman named Baumgartner who claimed she was wealthy.We learn the dark secrets of the Baumgartner’s grown children Anthony, Caroline and Hugo. Matthew 10:36 will apply in this case of high financial crime and murder We also delve into the dark world of street drugs in the slums of Montreal. Another worthy entry in the series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A strange will, a pending drug epidemic, and murder
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 10, 2018
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Armand Gamache, former head of the Surete du Quebec, receives a letter from a notary, asking him to come to a farmhouse about 20 minutes from Gamache’s village of Three Pines. Once there, he discovers that Myrna Landers, owner of the bookstore in the village, has received the same letter. As has a young man from Montreal, a building contractor. The notary explains that they have been asked to be executors of a will of a woman known as “the Baroness.”
The Baroness has left millions in capital and real estate to her three children. The problem is that the Baroness was a cleaning lady, who had not amassed anything close to the sizeable fortune cited in the will. Her three adult children have heard the stories – a family feud buried under longstanding litigation that goes back to 19th century Vienna and has somehow survived the collapse of the Habsburg Empire and the confiscation by the Nazis. The litigation is still ongoing, but is there any fortune left?
Then the Baroness’s oldest son is found dead. What at first appears to be an accident turns out to be murder, and Gamache and his son-in-law (and chief of homicide) Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves investigating financial management firms, old Austrian wills, and what looks to be a very contemporary case of fraud.
Gamache has another issue on his hands. A dead form of fentanyl is about to hit the streets of Montreal. It is the drug supply that Gamache has allowed into the country in the previous novel, Glass Houses, to break up a huge drug supply ring. But some of the drugs disappeared, and the Surete is undertaking an internal investigation of Gamache with the end of destroying him. Gamache has to find the drugs before a disaster of death hits the streets.
“Kingdom of the Blind” by Canadian mystery writer Louise Penny is the 14th in the Armand Gamache series, and it maintains Penny’s consistently high quality of work. The reader is hooked into the story from the outset, and the story just won’t let go.
Penny is a master of characterization. She helps us crawl inside her characters’ heads, and it is from there that we watch each new development unfold. And the regular cast of characters from Three Pines make their contributions to the story (and the case being investigated), especially crazy poet Ruth Zardo, artist Clara Morrow, and Ruth’s duck Rosa. At the center of the drug case is Amelia Choquet, the former prostitute and all-around bad girl that Gamache recruited for the police academy and who’s been dismissed (and almost arrested) for drug possession.
And it wouldn’t be a Gamache novel without snow. A lot of snow.
“Kingdom of the Blind” has a kind of valedictory feel to it. Penny explains in an afterword that she didn’t think she would write another Gamache novel after the death of her husband. The way the novel ends, it could be the last, if Penny so decides. Or perhaps not. We hope.
5.0 out of 5 stars love this series
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 14, 2022
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Each book is a page turner. They get better and better. I’m hooked. I love all the French references. Bravo!
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