![]() 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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