louise penny
New York Times Best Selling Author
Vive Gamache and welcome to Three Pines!
MISS WOLCOTT’S GHOST has left the building! Or at least the publishers. The 21st novel in the lives of Armand, Jean-Guy, Clara, Myrna, Ruth and the rest of the Three Pines family, is now in your favourite bookstore and library. And maybe in your hands.
The book has had an amazing response.
Click here for a brief synopsis.
You can see my tour dates here, and if you’d like to follow along, I’ll be posting on Facebook and Instagram. I always appreciate your company, my friend.
Since tickets for the in-person event sold out within hours, we have decided to offer the Haskell event as a live stream, giving those who couldn’t get tickets the opportunity to join us virtually. More information about the live stream is available here. For details of all other events, please click here.
Deep and thoughtful, with themes of gender bias in science and the danger of forgetting history running through it, along with such Gamache favorites as honor, forgiveness and second chances... Plot aside, Penny’s finest achievement here is managing to include pretty much every Three Pines regular without seeming to check them mechanically off a list...Descriptions of so many evolving and deepening relationships are lovingly tucked into the chapters...reading 'Miss Wolcott’s Ghost' made me as happy as an afternoon in the Gamaches’ garden with a glass of pink lemonade.
Gamache and his team grapple with ghosts of their own as Penny characteristically delivers a grim and determined investigation with charm—“not much seemed to happen in Three Pines. Though when it did, it was often quite shocking and took some telling.” As always, this Gamache tale is fueled by the offerings of the Bistro. Readers should savor every bite and every word.
Exemplary... Penny's talent for nail-biting suspense and quiet character moments fuse with surprisingly topical subject matter to deliver an unputdownable installment of an ever reliable series. Readers will cheer
A superpowered mystery shrouded in mysticism and history whose power endures past its closing revelations.
...The intricate mysteries of Louise Penny are always an education as well as delightful entertainment: “Even Rosa stared, but then ducks often did.” This one involves a real-life shipwreck and a former colleague sacked for cowardice. Despite the research rapture, feelings are to the fore: “The ‘how’, even the ‘who’ of a murder investigation, was important, but never as interesting or telling as the ‘why’s.” Penny has written 21 novels featuring Gamache and this is one of the very best.
‘…absorbing….intriguing.’
To celebrate the publication of MISS WOLCOTT’S GHOST St. Martin’s Press, has launched a wonderful initiative called THE GARDENS OF THREE PINES.
out now
THE LAST MANDARIN
My great and brilliant friend Mellissa Fung and I wrote a political thriller. The Last Mandarin is now out in the world and we could not be more grateful for its reception. The Last Mandarin is a New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestseller, and recently reached the #1 Hardcover Fiction spot at McNally Robinson, Canada’s largest independent bookstore chain.
out now
Still Life 20th anniversary edition
Twenty years ago, in 2005, STILL LIFE was published and the world was introduced to Three Pines and Chief Inspector Gamache. It was, for me, the realization of a dream I'd had since reading Charlotte's Web at the age of 8, and knowing then I wanted to write. It took me another thirty years to get up the courage. And then another seven years after that to get STILL LIFE published. But at the age of 45, I finally held my first book.
THREE PINES TOURS – KNOWLTON, QUEBEC
From May through October, Three Pines Tours are offered in Knowlton, bringing the world of Three Pines to life. click here.
NEW – KNOWLTON – Walking tour with Patricia St Onge click here.
NEW – GAMACHE TOUR – MONTREAL
Françoise Bâby offers a Gamache walking tour in Montreal. This two-hour tour explores downtown and Old Montreal, with a focus on art, history, architecture, and food. Selected excerpts from the books are read along the way. click here.
GAMACHE / BURY YOUR DEAD – QUEBEC CITY
Guided walking tours inspired by Bury Your Dead are available in Quebec City exclusively through Marie Legroulx. click here.
QUEBEC CITY TOUR OF THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM WITH GAMACHE AND HENRI
NEW Walking tour of the Plains of Abraham, tracing Inspector Gamache and his dog Henri from Louise Penny’s Bury Your Dead, exclusively with Marie Legroulx.. click here (tour number 4).
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