![]() ![]() “He relied on, and trusted, both his rational mind and his instincts,” Penny says of her avuncular detective, who is surely one of the most endearing specimens of his kind. Luckily, Armand Gamache, chief superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, is on the scene to deliver comfort and establish order. But while the setting is entrancing, everyone knows that, “in the countryside, winter was a gorgeous, glorious, luminous killer.” And to prove that point, an old farmhouse collapses under the snow, trapping someone inside. The temperature drops to a chilling minus 35 degrees, snow blankets the village green and neighbors trudge through the towering drifts to warm themselves by the fireside at the local inn. The pretty Canadian village of Three Pines is slumbering peacefully through the “long, long, dark, dark, Québec winter” in Louise Penny’s latest mystery, KINGDOM OF THE BLIND (Minotaur, $28.99), when it is suddenly hit by a blizzard. ![]()
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