Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache)

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Also, I thought the dialogue was a bit stiff in places and the interactions and conversations seemed a bit repetitive or rehashed from past stories.

Most of the drugs have been rounded up since then, but one shipment remains out there, prompting Gamache, with scant backup, to venture into the drug-riddled underworld of Montreal. Read all Al is hired by an acquaintance who happens to be the local mob boss to track down his own brother who's wanted by the mafia for the murder of an important gangster figure.He was not reinstated as chief superintendent, but he was offered back his old job as head of homicide.

It is possible to read them as stand alones but richer when you have the full context and background.

He had told her about the game development death march to deadline, working eighteen hour days in the crunch before release of their game, SphereGuardian, sleeping at work and living on cereal and power bars and caffeine. It was not life-threatening in the immediate sense, but it wasn’t trivial and it interrupted two nurses and a resident working on a woman in ICU having seizures, a pharmacist counting meds, a CT Scan, a couple of X-rays, and it derailed a couple of consultations. She was pretty sure she had gotten this job because she was a woman and human resources had seen an opportunity to increase diversity. Usually, the stark reality of the drama sucks us in, and I’m holding my breath in the very first chapter.