Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache)

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Starting at the east end of the building, the lights went out, and after just a couple of seconds, came back on. The guy who wrote the article had interviewed a scientist at MIT who thought that the systems had shown patterns that seemed purposeful and that could be interpreted as signs that the systems were testing their environments. It is possible to read them as stand alones but richer when you have the full context and background. How does this compare with the description of Ruth’s approach in Chapter 9: “Ruth remembered everything. He had shown her a place where SAMEDI seemed to be reading stuff in and out of memory for no particular reason.

When Anthony “Tony” Baumgartner’s body was found in the remains of his mother’s house, it was first believed he was killed because of his mother’s will. There are different kinds of families in the novel, from the Baumgartners to the Gamaches to the bonds between Benedict and Katie (“Benedict wondered if he tried, really, really tried, he could build a relationship that solid”), to the team of Armand, Jean-Guy, and Isabelle: “Her husband stayed behind in the living room, watching the three of them go. Everyone tries to recover from the trauma of being trapped, while Amelia reckons with where she’s landed after learning that her landlady burned all of her books. Penny reveals a deeper vulnerability in the introspective Gamache; is it possible he's not quite sure of himself anymore?They find and, after a harrowing further collapse, manage to rescue Benedict, but not before they discover that someone else had been there, dead in the rubble. Since their “environments” were the complex fields of data inputted into them, they didn’t see or hear or smell or taste. Penny wraps up some continuing story lines and sends recurring characters in surprising directions in this solid installment.

They realize that the number on the back of Clara’s painting at Anthony’s could be the laptop password, and both Gamache and Beauvoir are about to head to Montreal. A subsystem would start doing something weird—crashing a lot, although when it was restarted they couldn’t find anything wrong. For me it went just a little too far, possibly because he went from being someone I liked to a man I'd be wary of if I encountered someone like him in real life.Before they can read the will, however, the blizzard kicks up and they decide to leave before they’re trapped.

His wife remained faithful to him throughout his life despite his frequent and highly publicised affairs, which often took place abroad and aboard his luxury yacht. And then Beauvoir brings Katie to Three Pines, where she tells the story of how she met the Baroness, and introduced her to her grandfather, the Baron Kinderoth. And they discuss his dilemma—whether or not to expel a cadet from the Sûreté academy named Amelia Choquet (originally seen in A GREAT RECKONING) who has been found with opioids in her possession.You could try reading this book as a standalone, but I doubt that it would be very satisfying: you need to know more about why Gamache has been suspended as Head of the Sûreté for what happens to make sense and the villagers in Three Pines only really come off the page if you know more of their background. They tested those programs by having them solve the problem, threw out the ones that didn’t work, and did the same thing all over again with the programs that were left. The bequests are so wildly unlikely that he suspects the woman must have been delusional - until a body is found.

Much of his work possesses a unique escapist charm, featuring protagonists who delight in Epicurean meals, surroundings of intense luxury, and the relaxed pursuit of criminal practice, on either side of the law. I've always said I'd rather be lucky than good and I've gotten lucky finding two authors that wrote suspense mysteries back in the early 1900s in E. As she looks, she awakes from having passed out with a strange Sharpie inscription on her arm, “David 1/4. He had written some stuff into SAMEDI so that he could have it run a report that output variables at different points. By now Louise Penny, deservedly, has built up such a large community of adoring readers that her novels belong to that most rarefied of literary categories: They are review-proof.

Gamache was named as an executor in the will of Bertha Baumgartner, a will in which she left money and a title she did not have to her children.