A World Of Curiosities, Penny - B+

                          The most recent Gamache novel is absolutely chilling. It ties  together the stories of a brother and sister Armand rescued a decade ago. Fiona and her brother Sam were being pimped out by their junkie mother when they killed her. Much against Armand's wishes, prosecutors put Fiona in jail, but Armand worked for her release and sponsored her to a prestigious engineering school. While celebrating her graduation in Three Pines, the town finds a sealed room from the middle of the 19th century filled with objects that are only a few years old. At the same time, Armand realizes a local suicide was actually murder, and Sam, whom Armand fears is hopelessly flawed comes to town. Armand concludes that the crimes committed are so complex that they could only have been committed by a psychopathic serial killer he had put away years before. He rushes to Quebec's special prison, discovers that John Fleming is gone and arrests the warden. His fears are confirmed. Fleming is coming for him or his family. Fleming is, and has been in, Three Pines innocuously and carefully disguised as a local. Both Sam and Fleming corner Ganache and others, who escape at the last moment. A great addition to the series.