All the Devils are Here

Louise Penny’s All the Devils Are Here (2020) is the 16th novel in the Inspector Gamache series, and the first to be set outside of Canada. It is a contemporary mystery-thriller that explores the power of corporations on the modern world and the influences of troubled history on modern life in the diverse and complex city of Paris.

Plot Summary

Armand Gamache, head of homicide investigation at the Sûrete de Québec, travels to Paris with his wife Reine-Marie. Both his adult children have recently moved there. His daughter Annie, married to his former second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir, is pregnant with their second child. Jean-Guy has recently left the demanding and dangerous job of the Sûrete for a consulting position at GHS Engineering, a private engineering firm. Armand’s son Daniel and his wife Roslyn have also moved to Paris with their two daughters for Daniel’s new job at an important Parisian bank.

The Gamaches go to Paris in preparation for Annie’s second childbirth, and Armand makes sure to spend time with Stephen, a close family friend and billionaire who is now 93 years old. After a family dinner out, Stephen is struck by a delivery truck and falls into a coma . The Gamache family is sure that it was not an accident.