![]() ![]() His own family.įor even the City of Light casts long shadows. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. It sends them deep into the secrets Armand’s godfather has kept for decades.Ī 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. 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. 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. On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand’s godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. ![]() ![]() All the Devils are Here // by Louise Penny // narrated by Robert Bathurst ![]()
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