Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny

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The 14th and latest in the Inspector Gamache series has the redoubtable detective, currently on suspension from the Sûreté du Québec, invited to be the executor of a will by an elderly woman he never knew. The bequests are so

bizarre that the policeman suspects the woman was delusional until the body of a key beneficiary is found and his strange invitation assumes a menacing meaning. Hailed by critics as Canada’s version of Hercule Poirot, the celebrated detective finds himself facing his own demons as well as very real terrors in a story about blindness, real and metaphorical.