The event changed Canadian history, as women fought for gun control. Fourteen died, and thirteen more were wounded. The gunman only targeted women who dared enter a man’s world and become engineers. That day thirty years earlier lives in Canadian history as a misogynistic attack on women. 6, 1989, Gamache was a police officer but one who also trained as a paramedic when a gunman struck at Ecole Polytechnique. Now, Louise Penny takes readers back in time, thirty years, twenty years, to terrible crimes and unforgettable killers. Perhaps it was meant to do that, but it was the first time I had been disappointed in a book in this series. However, I felt as if I had returned to a familiar world with this latest novel, and the last book left me feeling uncomfortable and disjointed. A reader can’t breathe a sigh of relief until the last page because Penny ratchets up the tension as much as she has ever done. I won’t say I breathed a sigh of relief when I read the eighteenth book, Louise Penny’s A World of Curiosities. I’ll be the first to admit I wasn’t a fan of the last Gamache book, The Madness of Crowds.
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