A World of Curiosities

Book 18 in the acclaimed and number one-bestselling Three Pines series featuring the beloved Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.

It''s spring and Three Pines is re-emerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should return.

But something has.

As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the S-ret-u Qu-c investigators'' lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they''ve arrived in the village of Three Pines.

But to what end?

Gamache and Beauvoir''s memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother''s murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to eru