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The hangman (Good reads series)
By Louise Penny. 2010
On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On…
his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to the crime scene. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c2010.Au royaume des aveugles (Armand Gamache enquête)
By Louise Penny. 2019
Convoqué dans une vieille ferme abandonnée, Armand Gamache apprend qu'une parfaite inconnue l'a choisi comme exécuteur testamentaire avec Myrna Landers,…
la libraire de Three Pines, et Benedict Pouliot, un jeune entrepreneur. Intrigués, tous trois acceptent ce rôle et découvrent des clauses tellement insolites qu'ils doutent de la santé mentale de la défunte. À moins qu'elle ne soit, au contraire, particulièrement lucide et consciente du danger qui pèse sur ses héritiersDead cold (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #2)
By Louise Penny. 2007
Sadistic socialite CC de Poitiers is fatally electrocuted in the tiny Québécois village of Three Pines. CC had a spiritual…
guidance business based on eliminating emotion, but the feelings she inspired in others were anything but serene. Everyone around the victim has a motive, and the crime also links to a vagrant's recent murder as well as to the pasts of several beloved village residents. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2007.All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #16)
By Louise Penny. 2020
On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand’s godfather, the…
billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man’s life. When a strange key is found in Stephen’s possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Sûreté, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d’Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art. It sends them deep into the secrets Armand’s godfather has kept for decades. A gruesome discovery in Stephen’s Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized. Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. His own family. For even the City of Light casts long shadows. And in that darkness devils hide.The long way home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #10)
By Louise Penny. 2014
Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec,…
has found a peace he’d only imagined possible. While Gamache doesn’t talk about his wounds, his neighbour Clara Morrow tells him about hers. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. She wants Gamache’s help to find him. Together with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey deep into Québec, to the very mouth of the great St. Lawrence River. In this desolate area they discover the terrible damage done by a sin-sick soul. Bestseller. 2014.A better man: a novel (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #15)
By Louise Penny. 2019
It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command,…
Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father. Bestseller.The murder stone (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #4)
By Louise Penny. 2008
The Manoir Bellechasse is playing host to the Finney family reunion, there to pay tribute to their father. Old secrets…
and bitter rivalries begin to simmer, and soon a dead body is discovered. Chief Inspector Gamache, also a guest at the resort, finds himself with a hotel full of suspects, including the staff, and with the hotel locked down, a cornered predator. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2008.The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #17)
By Louise Penny. 2021
You’re a coward. Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. It starts…
innocently enough. While the residents of the Quebec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request. He’s asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. A visiting Professor of Statistics will be giving a lecture at the nearby university. While he is perplexed as to why the head of homicide for the Sureté du Québec would be assigned this task, it sounds easy enough. That is until Gamache starts looking into Professor Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture. They refuse, citing academic freedom, and accuse Gamache of censorship and intellectual cowardice. Before long, Professor Robinson’s views start seeping into conversations. Spreading and infecting. So that truth and fact, reality and delusion are so confused it’s near impossible to tell them apart. Discussions become debates, debates become arguments, which turn into fights. As sides are declared, a madness takes hold. Abigail Robinson promises that, if they follow her, Ça va bien aller. All will be well. But not, Gamache and his team know, for everyone. When a murder is committed it falls to Armand Gamache, his second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and their team to investigate the crime as well as this extraordinary popular delusion. And the madness of crowds.The beautiful mystery (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #8)
By Louise Penny. 2012
No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen…
cloistered monks grow vegetables, make chocolate, and sing. But when the renowned choir director is murdered, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec must enter, to discover disquiet beneath the silence and discord in the apparent harmony. As the peace of the monastery crumbles, Gamache is forced to confront some of his own demons, as well as those roaming the remote corridors. 2012.A trick of the light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #7)
By Louise Penny. 2011
Lillian Dyson is found dead among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow’s garden in Three Pines, shattering the…
celebrations of Clara’s solo show at the famed Musée in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, is called to the tiny Quebec village to find the art world gathered, a world of shading and nuance, of shadow and light, where nothing is as it seems. Even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to Gamache and his team if what they’ve found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light. Some descriptions of violence, strong language. 2011.A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #18)
By Louise Penny. 2022
It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not…
everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines. But to what end? Gamache and Beauvoir’s memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother’s murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt? As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up. As the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there’s more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge. In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache’s home.The nature of the beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #11)
By Louise Penny. 2015
Nine-year-old Laurent Lepage, who is prone to telling tall tales about things he finds in the woods surrounding Three Pines,…
is found murdered. What discovery had he tried to share that they all, especially the retired head of homicide, Armand Gamache, ignored? Some violence and some strong language. 2015.The cruelest month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #3)
By Louise Penny. 2007
Armand Gamache is called to the village of Three Pines to investigate a mysterious death resulting from a séance. Gamache…
soon finds that the village is haunted by deeply buried secrets, and that he himself is the target of a powerful enemy within the Sureté du Québec. Some descriptions of violence, strong language. 2007.How the light gets in (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #9)
By Louise Penny. 2013
In Quebec, Chief Inspector Gamache’s best agents have left the department and his lieutenant isn’t speaking to him. When Gamache…
learns from Myrna Landers that her longtime friend did not arrive for Christmas in the village of Three Pines, he is happy to go investigate. Some strong language. Bestseller. 2013.Révélation brutale (Armand Gamache enquête. #5.)
By Louise Penny, Louise Chabalier, Claire Chabalier. 2012
L'été s'achève et la nature réserve aux habitants de Three Pines un dernier éclat terrifiant. Un mort est découvert dans…
l'endroit le plus vivant du village : le bistro d'Olivier. De prime abord, personne n'admet connaître le vieil ermite assassiné. Armand Gamache et son équipe reviennent dans les Cantons-de-l'Est pour sonder les strates de mensonges et de non-dits que dissimule le vernis idyllique des lieux. Des sentiers oubliés les conduisent au fond des bois, là où se cachent des secrets et des trésors honteux. Le chaos s'est infiltré dans cette beauté sauvage et ce qui attend l'inspecteur-chef n'est rien de moins qu'une révélation brutale. 2012. Titre uniforme: The brutal telling.La faille en toute chose ((Armand Gamache enquête).)
By Louise Penny, Louise Chabalier, Claire Chabalier. 2014
" Noël approche : la campagne revêt son blanc manteau et s'égaye de joyeuses lumières. Toutefois, pour l'inspecteur-chef Armand Gamache,…
le temps des retrouvailles au coin du feu est troublé par des ombres menaçantes. Ses meilleurs agents ont quitté la section des homicides, son fidèle lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir ne lui parle plus depuis des mois et des forces hostiles semblent liguées contre lui. Quand Myrna Landers, la libraire de Three Pines, lui demande de l'aider à retrouver l'amie qui devait la rejoindre pour les Fêtes, il saisit l'occasion d'aller se réfugier dans les Cantons-de-l'Est avec ceux qui lui sont restés loyaux. Intrigué par le refus de Myrna de révéler l'identité de la disparue, Gamache découvre qu'il sagit de la dernière des quintuplées Ouellet. Au terme de son enquête, il trouvera certainement un assassin, mais pourra-t-il enfin trouver la paix ? " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: How the light gets in.Le beau mystère ((Armand Gamache enquête).)
By Louise Penny, Louise Chabalier, Claire Chabalier. 2014
" Caché au creux d'une forêt sauvage du Québec, le monastère Saint-Gilbert-entre-les-Loups n'admet aucun étranger. Vingt-quatre moines y vivent cloîtrés.…
Ils cultivent des légumes, élèvent des poules, fabriquent du chocolat et prient Ironiquement, la communauté qui a fait vœu de silence est devenue mondialement célèbre pour ses chants grégoriens, dont l'effet est si puissant qu'on le nomme le beau mystère . L'harmonie est rompue par l'assassinat du chef de chœur et l'intrusion de l'inspecteur Gamache et de son adjoint Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Les enquêteurs cherchent l'accroc dans ces vies consacrées à l'amour de Dieu, mais cette retraite forcée les place aussi face à leurs propres failles. Pour trouver le coupable, Gamache devra d'abord contempler le divin, l'humain, et la distance qui les sépare. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Beautiful mystery.Illusion de lumière: Armand Gamache enquête : roman
By Louise Penny, Louise Chabalier, Claire Chabalier. 2013
'' Quand il se réalise, le rêve dune vie peut virer au cauchemar. Lors du vernissage de sa première exposition…
au Musée dart contemporain de Montréal, un mauvais pressentiment hante Clara Morrow. De fait, le lendemain de la fête à Three Pines, une femme est trouvée la nuque brisée au milieu des fleurs de son jardin. Qui était cette invitée que personne ne reconnaît ? Peu à peu, le tableau du crime prend forme et linspecteur-chef Armand Gamache apprend que dans le monde de lart chaque sourire dissimule une moquerie, chaque gentillesse cache un cœur brisé. Dans cette affaire, la vérité est déformée par un jeu dombre et de lumière qui crée lillusion. '' -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Trick of the light.Enterrez vos morts: Armand Gamache enquête
By Louise Penny, Louise Chabalier, Claire Chabalier. 2013
"Tandis que le Vieux-Québec scintille sous la neige et s'égaye des flonflons du carnaval, Armand Gamache tente de se remettre…
du traumatisme d'une opération policière qui a mal tourné. Mais, pour l'inspecteur-chef de la SQ, impossible d'échapper longtemps à un nouveau crime, surtout lorsqu'il survient dans la vénérable Literary and Historical Society, une institution de la minorité anglophone de Québec. La victime est un archéologue amateur connu pour sa quête obsessive de la sépulture de Champlain. Existerait-il donc, enfoui depuis quatre cents ans, un secret assez terrible pour engendrer un meurtre ? Confronté aux blessures de l'histoire, hanté par ses dernières enquêtes, Gamache doit replonger dans le passé pour pouvoir enfin enterrer ses morts." -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Bury your dead.Le mois le plus cruel (Armand Gamache enquête.)
By Louise Penny, Michel Saint-Germain, Louise Chabalier. 2011
Durant le week-end de Pâques, le village de Three Pines s'anime le temps d'une grande chasse aux œufs. Lorsqu'une étrangère…
ayant le don de communiquer avec les esprits sinstalle au gîte d'Olivier, sa présence éveille la curiosité. Une soirée de spiritisme est organisée dans la vieille maison abandonnée des Hadley. La séance destinée à libérer la demeure du mal qu'elle recèle est tragiquement interrompue par la mort d'une participante. Morte de peur, vraiment ? C'est ce qu'Armand Gamache, l'inspecteur-chef de la Sûreté du Québec, va devoir découvrir en revenant dans les Cantons-de-l'Est avec son équipe. Alors que le printemps explose de vie, le mal, lui, reste tapi dans l'ombre et Gamache le sait mieux que quiconque. 2011. Titre uniforme: The cruellest month.