A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 16 by Louise Penny, 2020, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2020 Macmillan Audio
This book is very different as the whole Gamasche family is in Paris. Jean-Guy Beauvoir has accepted a job with a company in Paris and has moved his family. Inspector Gamasche’s son, Daniel, also has a job in Paris and Inspector Gamasche is now head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, but he and his wife are on vacation visiting their families.
While in Paris, the Gamasce family has dinner with an old friend from Montreal, but the friend is struck by a car after dinner. Inspector Gamache is certain that it was intended.
Because almost all of the book takes place in Paris rather than Three Pines and the whole family becomes involved, it is very different from Louise Penny’s other novels. I enjoyed it very much and couldn’t wait to get to the end, but I was disappointed in the outcome. The final resolution was just too hard to believe. I was going to rate this one higher, but the ending left me unsatisfied.