Waiting on Wednesday - Kingdom of the Blind

I'm posting a 'soon to be released' book on Wednesdays.  These will always be books that I am particularly looking forward to.  I'll be linking up to 'Can't-Wait Wednesday' hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings and plan to take part in this each week.

The book I'm waiting for this week is one that no one who reads this blog regularly should question or be surprised about.  Louise Penny is probably my favorite author ever.  She just speaks to me and my heart so vividly - plus she can write a good mystery novel as well.  After her husband passed away some months ago, she said that she had not thought she would have a book for 2018.  Thought she would take a year off.  That is not the case though.  It's being published a little later in the year than usual, but Louise shared that writing it was good therapy for her.  She misses her Michael so much, so I expect she poured her heart and soul into this one.  This week I'm waiting on:

Kingdom of the Blind

by Louise Penny

Publication Date:  November 27th

When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder.

None of them had ever met the elderly woman.

The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional. But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly sane?

When a body is found, the terms of the bizarre will suddenly seem less peculiar and far more menacing.

But it isn’t the only menace Gamache is facing.

The investigation into what happened six months ago—the events that led to his suspension—has dragged on, into the dead of winter. And while most of the opioids he allowed to slip though his hands, in order to bring down the cartels, have been retrieved, there is one devastating exception.

Enough narcotic to kill thousands has disappeared into inner city Montreal. With the deadly drug about to hit the streets, Gamache races for answers.

As he uses increasingly audacious, even desperate, measures to retrieve the drug, Armand Gamache begins to see his own blind spots. And the terrible things hiding there.