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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.By Louise Penny. 2016
When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first…
seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets, to an old friend and older adversary, to places even he is afraid to go - but must. And there he finds four young cadets in the Sûreté academy, and a dead professor. And, with the body, a copy of the map. Everywhere Gamache turns, he sees Amelia Choquet, one of the cadets: tattooed and pierced, guarded and angry, Amelia is more likely to be found on the other side of a police line-up, and yet she is in the academy, a protégée of the murdered professor. The focus of the investigation soon turns to Gamache himself and his mysterious relationship with Amelia, and his possible involvement in the crime. The frantic search for answers takes the investigators back to Three Pines and a stained glass window with its own horrific secrets. Bestseller. 2016.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.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.By Louise Penny. 2015
Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to winged beasts…
in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village. But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true. And so begins a frantic search for the boy and the truth. What they uncover deep in the forest sets off a sequence of events that leads to murder, leads to an old crime, leads to an old betrayal. Leads right to the door of an old poet. “And now it is now”, writes Ruth Zardo. “And the dark thing is here.” Sequel to "The long way home". Bestseller. 2015.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.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. 2011.By Louise Penny. 2017
When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers…
are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope his mounting fears are not realized. But when the figure vanishes overnight and a body is discovered, it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied. Months later, on a steamy July day as the trial for the accused begins in Montréal, Chief Superintendent Gamache continues to struggle with actions he set in motion that bitter November, from which there is no going back. More than the accused is on trial. Gamache’s own conscience is standing in judgment. Sequel to "A great reckoning". Bestseller. 2017.By Louise Penny. 2016
When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first…
seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets, to an old friend and older adversary, to places even he is afraid to go - but must. And there he finds four young cadets in the Sûreté academy, and a dead professor. And, with the body, a copy of the map. Everywhere Gamache turns, he sees Amelia Choquet, one of the cadets: tattooed and pierced, guarded and angry, Amelia is more likely to be found on the other side of a police line-up, and yet she is in the academy, a protégée of the murdered professor. The focus of the investigation soon turns to Gamache himself and his mysterious relationship with Amelia, and his possible involvement in the crime. The frantic search for answers takes the investigators back to Three Pines and a stained glass window with its own horrific secrets. Bestseller. 2016.By Louise Penny. 2010
Chief Inspector Gamache, on leave in Quebec City, helps investigate the murder of an archaeologist who was searching for the…
remains of Samuel de Champlain. Meanwhile Gamache sends his colleague Jean-Guy Beauvoir to Three Pines to revisit the case described in "The Brutal Telling." Some strong language. 2010.By Louise Penny. 2017
When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers…
are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope his mounting fears are not realized. But when the figure vanishes overnight and a body is discovered, it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied. Months later, on a steamy July day as the trial for the accused begins in Montréal, Chief Superintendent Gamache continues to struggle with actions he set in motion that bitter November, from which there is no going back. More than the accused is on trial. Gamache’s own conscience is standing in judgment. Sequel to "A great reckoning". Bestseller. 2017.By Louise Penny. 2012
When a peaceful monastery in Quebec is shattered by the murder of their renowned choir director, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache…
and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Surete du Quebec are challenged to find the killer in a cloistered community that has taken a vow of silence. 2012.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.By Louise Penny. 2018
When Armand Gamache receives a letter inviting him to an abandoned farmhouse outside of Three Pines, the former head of…
the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him as an executor of her will. Armand never knew the elderly woman, and the bequests are so wildly unlikely that he suspects the woman must have been delusional - until a body is found, and the terms of the bizarre will suddenly seem far more menacing. But it isn't the only menace Gamache is facing. The investigation into the events that led to his suspension has dragged on, and Armand is taking increasingly desperate measures to rectify previous actions. As he does, Armand Gamache begins to see his own blind spots - and the terrible things hiding there. Sequel to "Glass houses". Bestseller. 2018.