A WORLD OF CURIOUSITIES

A WORLD OF CURIOUSITIES by Louise Penny

I am a lover of Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache. After 17 books I thought we had experienced just about every atrocity known to the human race and lived through dirty government/dirty police officers with ulterior motives trying to force Gamache out of the Quebec Suerte. I've watched him rescue and breathe purpose into officers tossed aside as unusable. I've heard the 4 thoughts he teaches each of his new recruits that lead to wisdom: 1) I don't know 2) I need help 3) I'm sorry 4) I was wrong. I've seen the scars that have been inflicted upon him and the slight tremor that now appears in his hands when he is emotionally involved in a case. But Book 18 A World of Curiosities steps us into the world of child prostitution and somehow Penny intertwines the story with a time period when women with herbal knowledge were accused of witchcraft and a famous painting of Curiosities. You live on the edge of your seat. However, I will tell you this is the darkest of the 18 so far. It about pushed me to my edge. There are allowances that I permit in books like this because law enforcement often times deals with the dark. It is part of the job, and there is no shying away from the types of cases that our men and women in blue deal with. Thank your law enforcement officers around you for sheltering you from the horrors that they encounter on a DAILY or WEEKLY basis. I should know, I once was a dispatcher for a police department.

To read this series you should start at Book 1.

HEADS UP - Heavy on the language including f bombs. Child prostitution- not heavy on the intimate details, but it takes you to the edge by making you aware of video and locations, people involved and the long term damage inflicted. This book does involve supposed witchcraft and the hunt for a book of spells of sorts, but not all is as it seems.