Book Review: All the Devils Are Here

Paris becomes the heart of Louise Penny's astonishingly constructed and unusually action-packed All the Devils Are Here. Armand Gamache, the former chief superintendent of Sûreté du Québec who is back as the head of the homicide division, and his retired-librarian wife Reine-Marie are spending time in the City of Light, where their two children now live, including his cop son-in-law Jean-Guy Beauvoir, who's quit the bureau for a job in an engineering firm. Gamache also takes this opportunity to have a reunion dinner with his billionaire godfather Stephen Horowitz — only after the nosh-up he is almost killed in a hit-and-run accident, leading Gamache and Beauvoir down a trail of corporate deception, espionage, and mayhem. Taking a break from Three Pines, the idyllic Québec village that's usually the main setting of the series, Penny just as beautifully renders Paris to life with sumptuous strokes and crafts a relentless thrill ride with a plot that quickens and thickens, paving the way for an explosive finale. Homecoming is due next!