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- After earning a bachelor’s degree in Applied Arts (Radio and Television), she spent 18 years of her life working as a journalist and radio host, before pursuing her childhood passion for writing. However, when she finally did decide to write (in her 40s), she made her mark in the field with her very first book.
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Oct 5, 2021 · Like the quirky townsfolk of Three Pines, Penny has had to start over time and time again. She first refreshed her life when she quit her job at the CBC in her 40s to devote herself to crime writing. She did it again when she became a full-time caregiver for her husband, Michael, when he was diagnosed with dementia in 2013, at the age of 79.
- Still Life
- Dead Cold
- The Cruelest Month
- The Murder Stone
- The Brutal Telling
- Bury Your Dead
- A Trick of The Light
- The Beautiful Mystery
- How The Light Gets in
- The Long Way Home
The first book of the series introduces us to Chief Inspector Gamache and the small, fictional village of Three Pines. The book is an instant crime mystery classic, and more than deserving of all the awards it got. It was Thanksgiving Weekend in Three Pines when a dead body was found in the woods. The victim is Jane Neal, a beloved local artist, fr...
The second book was originally titled A Fatal Grace, and then Dead Cold. It takes us back to Three Pines, only this time, we’re talking about Christmas time instead of Thanksgiving. Also, the victim is not a beloved artist, but a mostly-hated woman named CC de Poitiers. She was killed by electrocution on a frozen lake, right in front of the entire ...
Spring came to Three Pines, and with it, a new cruel murder came along with the ‘cruelest month.’ A group of villagers decides to celebrate Easter with a seance, but things turn sour when one of them dies – seemingly of fright. Chief Inspector Gamache investigates as he is forced to deal with his own ghosts from the past.
Alternatively titled A Rule Against Murder, the fourth book of the series takes Armand Gamache on a twisted journey over the summer in Three Pines, right in the midst of his wedding anniversary celebration. At the picturesque Manoir Bellechasse, where Gamache and his wife are celebrating, another family comes for their own celebration, and after a ...
The summer is coming to an end, and autumn is coming down on Three Pines. With it comes another dead body at an antique store, but nobody claims to know the deceased man. The secrets and the lies come to light as Gamache investigates. The main suspect turns out to be Olivier, the owner of the bistro/antique store, but is he really the culprit, or w...
During a Winter Carnival in Quebec City, a historian tries to find the remains of Quebec’s founder, but his quest ends in murder. Inspector Gamache was there to recover from a previous investigation that ended badly but instead, he’s wrapped in a mystery only he can solve. Meanwhile, an unjust murder conviction in Three Pines comes back to haunt Ar...
Lillian Dyson is found dead in the garden of another Three Pines resident, Clara Morrow, an artist who was just celebrating her solo show at the Musee in Montreal. In the artistic world, nothing is as it seems, and Gamache finds himself in probably the biggest challenge of his career so far. Did they get the right person? Nothing is as it seems…
In the Saint-Gilbert-Entre-Les-Loups, a group of monks lives in isolated peace, known mostly for their unfathomably beautiful singing voices. However, when their choir director is murdered, Chief Inspector Gamache comes to investigate. It might be harder than he thought, especially knowing that the monks took a vow of silence…
We are nearing Christmas time in Three Pines again, which means snow is falling all over Quebec. As Gamache investigates a disappearance of a once-famous woman, the danger for his own life rises, and he has to find a way to keep his loved ones safe while getting to the bottom of yet another Three Pines mystery.
Armand Gamache is Chief Inspector no more, but rather a happily-retired resident of Three Pines. However, his peace is disturbed when his neighbor, Clara Morrow, shares how her husband never returned home. At first, Armand is reluctant but decides to help Clara find her husband Peter, and his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Bouvier, helps out. T...
I enjoyed them immensely because of the setting, and the plot for both books was engaging. However, I also had a hard time with her writing style, especially in the first novel. I’m not a fan of the sentence fragments. They do give off a bit of an angst-like vibe - I thought the style felt self-indulgent.
Dec 15, 2022 · Dec. 15, 2022. A funny thing happened when Louise Penny decided to take a year off from writing. In 2021, the Canadian novelist ushered two thrillers into the world — “ The Madness of...
Dec 7, 2022 · Louise Penny, best-selling Canadian novelist and creator of the detective Armand Gamache, was sure as far back as 2005, when she published her award-winning debut Still Life, that she wouldn’t...
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Aug 21, 2019 · After a long career as a CBC reporter, Louise Penny, pictured, took up writing in her 30s and published her first book, Still Life, in 2005, in her early 40s.
Aug 31, 2021 · August 31, 2021. AudioFile Spotlight: Talking with Author Louise Penny. By Aurelia C. Scott. Louise Penny says that plotting her bestselling mysteries about Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Quebec Sûreté is a balancing act. “I know where the story is going, but I don’t want to hold my characters so firmly to the outline that they can ...
