A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, 18)
三 Pines の村に戻ってきた古い事件の記憶と、壁の中から見つかる手掛かりが、ガマシュたちを新たな危機へ導く長編。過去の傷と現在の暴力が重なり、シリーズらしい温度と緊張感の両方が際立つ。
作品情報
埋もれていたものが再び姿を現すとき、村の静けさは崩れ始める。
Three Pines の村に春が戻りつつある一方で、古い事件にまつわる記憶が再び揺さぶられる。壁の中に隠された部屋と、そこから始まる手掛かりが、ガマシュとボーヴォワに新しい危険と向き合うことを迫る。
レビュー要約
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シリーズらしい人物造形と複層的な謎が高く評価され、読後に余韻が残るという声が多い。やや重い題材を扱いながらも、村の人間関係の細やかさが支えになっている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Minotaur Books
- 発売日
- 2022-11-29
- ページ数
- 390ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 16.64 x 3.05 x 24.26 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781250145291
- ISBN-10
- 1250145295
- 価格
- 4775 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery/British Detectives
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Agatha Award Winner for Best Contemporary Novel Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. 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 Sûreté du Québec 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 erupt? As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up. As the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there’s more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge. In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache’s home.
LOUISE PENNY is the author of the #1 New York Times , USA Today , and Globe and Mail bestselling series of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, and coauthor with Hillary Rodham Clinton of the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller State of Terror . She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (nine times), and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. In 2017, she received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture. Louise lives in a small village south of Montréal.
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冒険小説マンネリ
Still Life から、毎回、社会性、舞台、題材、人物がよく書けていて夢中で読んできましたが、今回は少々マンネリです。
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Man weiß bei Serien um beliebte Kriminaler ja genau, dass sie am Ende siegen und keinesfalls getötet werden, ihre Angehörigen auch extrem selten. Dennoch eine solche Spannung zu schaffen und über 300 Seiten lang aufrecht zu erhalten, ja gegen Ende noch zu steigern ist eine Meisterleistung. Der Roman um eine Art Wunderkammer - in der späten Neuzeit eine Sammlung von Kuriositäten vom in Silber gefassten Totenschädel bis zu Objekten aus der Neuen Welt - ist kompliziert und faszinierend gestrickt. Ein alter Feind von Gamache steckt dahinter und zwei Fälle entpuppen sich als zusammenhängend. Es wird oft behauptet, ein Buch sei „unputdownable“, hier ist es so. Großartig, unbedingt lesen!
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Love Gamache series of books. Cat wait for the next one.
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Bit light on the mystery. There were only 2 possibilities from the beginning and by mid way it was clear as to who’s the nemesis. Even the life messages have got repetitive over the last couple of books in the series and is just a revamp of the old messages. The oblique references to poems or other historical events have also become quite light.
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Most amazing mystery series by world famous writer. Highly recommend reading.
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Simply the best series, love Chief Inspector Gamache and all the characters and story lines. Read one book and then read all 18 back to back, can’t put them down. Easy reading, suspenseful, fun. I want to visit Three Pines!!!
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