![]() The Gamaches were saying goodbye to their daughter, son-in-law, and grandson as the novel ended. Regular readers of the series will recall that the previous novel in the series, A Better Man, ended with Gamache’s son-in-law, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, having quit the Montreal police force as Gamache’s second-in-command and accepting a job with a private Paris company. What’s so completely different about All the Devils Are Here is that it takes place in Paris rather then in or around the little Canadian village of Three Pines where the other fifteen novels are set. ![]() And, although, it is difficult for male readers to do female voices without sounding at least a little bit silly at times, Bathurst manages to pull off the trick. That kind of thing makes it easier for the reader/listener to distinguish between characters and even helps in creating a visual image of each. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bathurst, an English actor who spent some of his formative years in Ireland, does a masterful job of assigning slightly different accents to Penny’s characters, including those who speak with a French accent. Narrator Robert Bathurst is himself a veteran of the Gamache books as this appears to be at least the sixth Louise Penny novel for which he’s done the narration. ![]()
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