Louise Penny and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Simon & Schuster/St. Martin's, $30 (512p) ISBN 978-1-9821-7367-8
Rapid-fire plot twists are at the fore of this derivative thriller, set in an alternative 2021, from bestsellers Penny (the Inspector Gamache series) and Clinton (What Happened), making her fiction debut. Douglas Williams, who has become president...
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Louise Penny, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (314p) ISBN 978-0-312-35256-1
When sadistic socialite CC de Poitiers is fatally electrocuted at a Christmas curling competition in the tiny Québecois village of Three Pines, only the arcane method of the murder is a surprise in Penny's artful but overwritten sophomore
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Louise Penny. Minotaur, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-14529-1
Bestseller Penny’s virtuoso 18th novel featuring Chief Insp. Armand Gamache of the Québec Sûreté (after 2021’s The Madness of Crowds) blends nuanced characterization with nail-biting suspense. Siblings Fiona and Sam Arsenault return to Three Pines...
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Louise Penny. Minotaur, $28.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-14526-0
Might a post-Covid Canada value individual lives less? That provocative question’s at the heart of bestseller Penny’s brilliant 17th whodunit featuring Sûreté du Québec Chief Insp. Armand Gamache (after 2020’s All the Devils Are Here). Gamache, who...
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Louise Penny. Minotaur, $28.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-14523-9
Bestseller Penny’s exceptional 16th series mystery (after 2019’s A Better Man) takes Chief Insp. Armand Gamache, the head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, to Paris for the anticipated birth of a grandchild to his daughter, Annie, who moved to...
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Louise Penny. Minotaur, $28.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-06621-3
Bestseller Penny’s wrenching 15th novel featuring Chief Insp. Armand Gamache (after 2018’s Kingdom of the Blind) finds Gamache, former chief superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, returning to work after a nine-month suspension and demotion, and...
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Louise Penny. Minotaur, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-06620-6
Bestseller Penny’s insightful, well-plotted 14th novel featuring Chief Supt. Armand Gamache finds him on suspension from the Sûreté du Québec following events that unfolded in 2017’s Glass Houses. No matter the suspension, Gamache becomes embroiled...
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Louise Penny. Minotaur, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-06619-0
Bestseller Penny’s taut 13th novel featuring Chief Supt. Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec (after 2016’s A Great Reckoning) opens at a murder trial in a Montreal courtroom. Judge Maureen Corriveau, who’s trying her first homicide case, suspects
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Louise Penny. Minotaur, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-02213-4
The lyrical 12th entry (after 2015’s The Nature of the Beast) in bestseller Penny’s remarkable series, which has won multiple Agatha awards, finds former Chief Insp. Armand Gamache coming out of retirement to clean up the corrupt Süreté Academy du...
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Louise Penny. Minotaur, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-02208-0
The bucolic Quebec village of Three Pines again proves no refuge in Penny’s stellar 11th Armand Gamache novel (after 2014’s The Long Way Home). Gamache has settled in the small community after retiring from the Sûreté, where he worked as a homicide...
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Louise Penny, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-312-35255-4
Canadian Penny's terrific first novel, which was the runner-up for the CWA's Debut Dagger Award in 2004, introduces Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. When the body of Jane Neal, a middle-aged artist, is found near a
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Louise Penny, Author St. Martin’s Minotaur $23.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-312-35257-8
Chief Insp. Armand Gamache and his team investigate another bizarre crime in the tiny Québec village of Three Pines in Penny’s expertly plotted third cozy (after 2007’s A Fatal Grace
). As the townspeople gather in the abandoned...
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Louise Penny. Minotaur, $24.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-02206-6
In Edgar-finalist Penny’s perceptive, perfectly paced 10th mystery featuring Chief Insp. Armand Gamache of the Quebec Sûreté (after 2013’s How the Light Gets In), Three Pines resident Peter Morrow has pledged to show up for a dinner with his wife,...
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Louise Penny, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-37702-1
Murder interrupts Chief Insp. Armand Gamache and his wife’s annual summer holiday at Quebec’s isolated, lake-front Manoir Bellechasse in Agatha-winner Penny’s intriguing, well-crafted fourth mystery (after 2008’s The Cruelest
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Louise Penny. Minotaur, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-65547-1
Complex characterizations and sophisticated plotting distinguish Agatha-winner Penny’s masterful ninth novel (after 2012’s The Beautiful Mystery). The devastating conclusion to the previous book saw Jean-Guy Beauvoir abandon his mentor, Chief Insp....
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Louise Penny, Author . Minotaur $24.99 (372p) ISBN 978-0-312-37703-8
When the body of an unknown old man turns up in a bistro in Agatha-winner Penny's excellent fifth mystery set in the Quebec village of Three Pines (after Jan. 2009's A Rule Against Murder
), Chief Insp. Armand Gamache investigates. At a...
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Louise Penny. Minotaur, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-65546-4
Religious music serves as the backdrop for bestseller Penny’s excellent eighth novel featuring Chief Insp. Armand Gamache of the Quebec Sûreté (after 2011’s A Trick of the Light). Gamache and his loyal number two, Insp. Jean-Guy Beauvoir, travel to...
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Louise Penny, Minotaur, $24.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-37704-5
At the start of Agatha-winner Penny's moving and powerful sixth Chief Insp. Armand Gamache mystery (after 2009's The Brutal Telling), Gamache is recovering from a physical and emotional trauma, the exact nature of which isn't immediately disclosed,...
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Louise Penny. Minotaur, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-65545-7
In Penny's outstanding seventh Chief Inspector Gamache novel, Gamache and his loyal deputy in Québec's Sûreté, Insp. Jean Guy Beauvoir, are still coming to terms with the multiple physical and emotional traumas they suffered in the previous book,...
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Louise Penny, read by Robert Bathurst. Macmillan Audio, , unabridged, 10 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-6386-5
At the start of this production, Penny offers a sweet farewell to the late Ralph Cosham, the original and sole reader of the series until his death last year. Simultaneously, she introduces his replacement, British actor Bathurst, who seems every...
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Louise Penny, read by Ralph Cosham. Macmillan Audio, , unabridged, nine CDs, 12 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-1320-4
In Penny’s latest whodunit in this popular series, Chief Insp. Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his assistant, Insp. Jean Guy Beauvoir, are back in the small village of Three Pines. This time, the sleuths are called to the home of artist...
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Louise Penny, Author, Ralph Cosham, Read by , read by Ralph Cosham. Blackstone $29.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4332-5128-3
Celebrated British narrator and actor Ralph Cosham brings this wonderful murder mystery to life and draws in listeners with his charisma. Penny's taut, darkly comedic tale features the Finney family, which has gathered for the installation of a
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Louise Penny, read by Ralph Cosham. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 15 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-3301-1
The avuncular voice of narrator Ralph Cosham—British, seasoned with more than a hint of Quebecois—fully expresses the mood of wistful regret that permeates this ninth (and perhaps last) chronicle of Penny’s Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the...
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Louise Penny, Author, Ralph Cosham, Read by , read by Ralph Cosham. Blackstone Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7861-5928-4
Penny’s newest mystery returns to Three Pines, the bucolic but hardly idyllic hamlet south of Montreal where Inspector Gamache has his hands full contending with a pair of murders including that of a spiritual and domestic diva. Veteran reader
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Louise Penny, read by Ralph Cosham. Macmillan Audio, , unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-4429-1
Officially retired, former chief of homicide Armand Gamache is at his beloved Quebec village of Three Pines, healing in mind and body after his ordeal in 2013’s How the Light Gets In, when a neighbor, celebrated artist Clara Morrow, asks him to find
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Louise Penny. Minotaur, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-32813-7
Penny’s 19th novel featuring Chief Insp. Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec (after A World of Curiosities) is one of the series’ best. The typically even-tempered Gamache is rattled by repeated phone calls from a mysterious stranger one morning...
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