A world of curiosities : a novel
(Audiobook CD)

Title from container.

Compact discs.

Read by Robert Bathurst.

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. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûřt du Qǔbec investigators' lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. But to what end? Gamache and Beauvoir's memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stonemason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 150-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.