Fans of New York Times bestseller Louise Penny can enjoy the Quebec author’s beloved tales onscreen as well as on the page, thanks to highly anticipated adaptation Three Pines, starring Alfred Molina as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.

While that goes back closer to the beginning, however, in the books world we get to thrill in this eighteenth novel starring the empathetic, wise, and kind head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec (provincial police).

In A World of Curiosities, a young man and woman reappear in Gamache’s life: the grown, damaged children of a murdered woman whose death first brought Gamache together many years ago with his protégé turned son-in-law. The siblings are not the only ghosts from the past, as Gamache’s fellow villagers discover a bricked-up attic full of puzzling curiosities that release danger into their lives.

Penny again shows her knack for crafting novels full of dreadful acts and dark issues, yet somehow feel warm and comforting too. Cosy crossed with noir; whatever you call them, they’re rather addictive.