Louise Penny

«El mejor libro hasta ahora de una serie excepcional.» The Wall Street Journal Mientras las lluvias torrenciales azotan Three Pines y el nivel del río Bella Bella no para de crecer amenazando con des

«El mejor libro hasta ahora de una serie excepcional.» The Wall Street JournalMientras las lluvias torrenciales azotan Three Pines y el nivel del río Bella Bella no para de crecer amenazando con dest

Vuelve la gran dama del crimen canadiense con la serie que ha cautivado a 15 millones de lectores «Un misterio hechizante.»The Washington Post Suspendido aún de empleo y sueldo por un caso relaciona

From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise - STATE OF TERROR.STATE OF TERROR follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray, and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out of touch and out of power in the places where it counts the most.This high-stakes thriller of international intrigue features behind-the-scenes global drama informed by details only an insider could know.

La novela más premiada de un fenómeno internacional: Louise Penny. El antiguo inspector jefe Armand Gamache se ha pasado toda su carrera cazando asesinos y luchando contra la corrupción. Ahora, como nuevo comandante de la academia de la Surete, tiene la oportunidad de combatir las corruptelas y la brutalidad que se ha extendido como una plaga por este cuerpo policial. Sin embargo, tras encontrar asesinado a un antiguo colega y profesor de la academia, junto a un misterioso mapa de Three Pines, Gamache se ve ante una tarea aun mas dura. Cuando la sospecha recae sobre el propio Gamache y su posible implicacion en el crimen, la frenetica busqueda de respuestas lleva la investigacion hasta el pueblo de Three Pines, donde esta a punto de desvelarse una serie de secretos devastadores...La critica ha dicho...En la nueva novela de Louise Penny, Una ofensa mortal, se concentran todas sus caracteristicas narrativas, su protagonista, el jefe Armand Gamache (su duodecima aparicion), algunos de sus consagrados ayudantes. Y sobre todo, su manera personalisima de entender el genero policiaco [...] Es la novela mas premiada de Louise Penny. Claro, no me extraña.El Correo Penny posee una espiritualidad fuera de serie, examina la brutalidad y las vidas a punto de salvarse o de hundirse sin remedio. La nota final de la autora, en donde se refiere al sentido de sus misterios, lo dice todo. Mucho mas que el texto de esta reseñista que, una vez mas, se rinde ante una de las mas importantes, persuasivas --y brutales-- revelaciones del genero.Lilian Neuman, La Vanguardia Profunda, grandiosa y extraordinaria de principio a fin [...]. Un milagro.The Washington PostIngeniosa... Impactante... Magica.The New York Times El estilo eliptico de Penny funciona de manera brillante en una novela que combina la corrupcion policial de nuestros dias con la tragedia.The Sunday Times Una ambientacion envolvente y una narracion empapada de busquedaespiritual [...]. Penny combina un argumento inteligente con unas descripciones evocadoras y preciosas.Daily Express Una ofensa mortal triunfa en todos los niveles.St. Louis Post-Dispatch Una ofensa mortales una de sus mejores obras, pero pienso mismo cada vez que termino un misterio Gamache.The Washington Post Penny mantiene a sus lectores haciendo cabalas hasta el final.The Guardian Una ambientacion espectacular. [...] Impresionante.The Times Una novela compleja que aborda temas universales como la compasion, la debilidad ante la tentacion, el perdon y el peligro de caer en la desesperacion y el cinismo ante demonios en apariencia insuperables.Publishers Weekly Penny escribe con gracia e inteligencia sobre personas complejas que luchan con emociones complejas, aunque su mayor don es la asombrosa capacidad para describir lo que quiza parezca indescriptible: el juego de luces, el sonido de la musica celestial, una quieta sensacion de paz.The New York Times Book Review

Gripping, surprising and powerful, Glass Houses is the new ingenious and illuminating novel from number one bestseller, Louise Penny, which will leave you spellbound until the final page.One cold November day, a mysterious figure appears on the village green in Three Pines, causing unease, alarm and confusion among everyone who sees it. Chief Superintendent, Armand Gamache knows something is seriously wrong, but all he can do is watch and wait, hoping his worst fears are not realised. But when the figure disappears and a dead body is discovered, it falls to Gamache to investigate.In the early days of the murder inquiry, and months later, as the trial for the accused begins, Gamache must face the consequences of his decisions, and his actions, from which there is no going back . . .''A cracking storyteller, who can create fascinating characters, a twisty plot and wonderful surprise endings'' Ann Cleeves

Previously published as Dead Cold The award-winning second novel from worldwide phenomenon and number one New York Times bestseller Louise Penny. Winter in Three Pines, and the sleepy village is carpeted in snow. It's a time of peace and goodwill - until a scream pierces the biting air. A spectator at the annual Boxing Day curling match has been fatally electrocuted. Despite the large crowd, there are no witnesses and - apparently - no clues. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache discovers a history of secrets and enemies in the dead woman's past. But he has enemies of his own, and as he is frozen out of decision-making in the Surete du Quebec, he has to decide who he can trust... 'Chief Superintendent Armand Gamache of the Quebec police is one of the most interesting detectives in crime fiction' The Times 'A cracking storyteller, who can create fascinating characters, a twisty plot and wonderful surprise endings' Ann Cleeves

A medida que la niebla matutina se va despejando el domingo de Acción de Gracias, los hogares de Three Pines cobran vida; todos menos uno... Para los lugareños el pueblo es un reducto de seguridad. De modo que, cuando encuentran muerto a un miembro muy querido de la comunidad en el bosque de arces, les invade la perplejidad. Sin duda debió de ser un accidente, la flecha extraviada de un cazador. ¿Quién iba a querer a Jane Neal muerta? A lo largo de una extensa y fulgurante carrera en la Sûreté du Quebec, el inspector jefe Armand Gamache ha aprendido a buscar serpientes en el Paraíso. Gamache sabe que hay algo oscuro merodeando tras las cercas blancas y, si observa con suficiente detenimiento, Three Pines empezará a desvelar sus secretos...

A brilliant, big, old-fashioned drawing-room mystery with a denouement worthy of Agatha Christie, from the international bestseller. It's the height of summer, and the Manoir Bellechasse is playing host to a reunion. The wealthy Finney family have gathered to pay tribute to their father. But as the temperature rises, so does the tension. Old secrets and bitter rivalries begin to simmer, and when the heat wave boils over into a mighty storm, a dead body is left in its wake. A guest at the Bellechasse, Chief Inspector Gamache of the Surete du Quebec finds himself with a hotel full of suspects. Even the staff have something to hide. With the hotel locked down, Gamache knows the murderer is trapped. But a cornered predator is always the most dangerous of all!

Former Chief Inspector Gamache has been hunting killers his entire career and as the new commander of the Sûreté Academy, he is given the chance to combat the corruption and brutality that has been rife throughout the force. But when a former colleague and professor of the Sûreté Academy is found murdered, with a mysterious map of Three Pines in his possession, Gamache has an even tougher task ahead of him.

There is more to solving a crime than following the clues.Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings.It's Easter, and on a glorious Spring day in peaceful Three Pines, someone waits for night to fall. They plan to raise the dead . . .When Chief Inspector Gamache of the Surete du Quebec arrives the next morning, he faces an unusual crime scene. A seance in an old abandoned house has gone horrifically wrong and someone has been seemingly frightened to death.In idyllic Three Pines, terrible secrets lie buried, and even Gamache has something to hide. One of his own team is about to betray him. But how far will they go to ensure Gamache's downfall?Ten million readers.Three pines.One inimitable Chief Inspector Gamache.

Intelligent warm familiar gripping and completely immersive Ambitious in geography and scope I relished every paragraph The Gamache and Three Pines we love but utterly fresh SUPERB WILL DEAN Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in the small village of Three Pines in Quebec Someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache head of homicide as he sits with his wife in their back garden When he finally answers the call his rage shatters the calm of their quiet Sunday morning That s only the first in a sequence of strange events that begin THE GREY WOLF At first they seem small a missing coat a note for Gamache reading this might interest you a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list but then a murder All propel Chief Inspector Gamache and his team toward a terrible realization Something much more sinister than any one murder or any one case is fast approaching A threat unlike anything they ve seen before PRAISE FOR LOUISE PENNY AND THE CHIEF INSPECTOR GAMACHE SERIES Penny delves into the nature of evil sensitively exploring the impact of the dreadful events she describes while bringing a warmth and humanity to her disparate cast of characters that unusually for a crime novel leaves you feeling be

Winter in Quebec City and Chief Inspector Armand Gamanche is plunged into the strangest case of his celebrated career. A man has been brutally murdered in the ancient library where the English citizens of Quebec safeguard their history. The death exposes a mystery that has lain dormant for centuries - and one that Gamache must solve if he's to catch a present-day killer. Full of suspense and mystery, Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny is a fascinating read.

Durant le week-end de Pâques, le village de Three Pines s'anime le temps d'une grande chasse aux oeufs. Mais, une fois la nuit tombée, le monde des vivants se mêle à celui des morts. Après les festiv

Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Surete du Quebec, has found a peace he''d only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, " The Balm in Gilead, " in his large hands. "There is a balm in Gilead," his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, "to make the wounded whole."While Gamache doesn''t talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. She wants Gamache''s help to find him. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. "There''s power enough in Heaven," he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, "to cure a sin-sick soul." And then he gets up. And joins her.Together with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey deeper and deeper into Quebec. And deeper and deeper into the soul of Peter Morrow. A man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist, he would sell that soul. And may have. The journey takes them further and further from Three Pines, to the very mouth of the great St. Lawrence river. To an area so desolate, so damned, the first mariners called it the land God gave to Cain. And there they discover the terrible damage done by a sin-sick soul."Read less

Clara Morrow's husband is missing. When he fails to come home on the first anniversary of their separation, as promised, Clara asks the only person she trusts to try and find him: former Chief Inspector of Homicide, Armand Gamache. As Gamache journeys further into the case, he is drawn deeper into the tortured mind of Peter Morrow, a man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist that he would sell his soul. As Gamache gets closer to the truth, he uncovers a deadly trail of jealousy and deceit. Can Gamache bring Peter, and himself, home safely? Or in searching for answers, has he placed himself, and those closest to him, in terrible danger? From number one New York Times bestselling author, Louise Penny, comes an evocative, immersive novel brimming with atmosphere and heart-stopping suspense -- her most ingenious novel to date.

Un dimanche d'automne, le jour se lève sur le charmant village québécois de Three Pines, et les maisons reprennent vie peu a peu. Toutes, sauf une... La découverte dans la forêt du cadavre de Jane Neal bouleverse les habitants de la petite communauté. Qui pouvait bien souhaiter la mort de cette enseignante a la retraite, peintre a ses heures, qui a vu grandir tous les enfants du village et dirigeait l'association des femmes de l'église anglicane ? L'inspecteur-chef Armand Gamache, de la Sûreté du Québec, est dépêché sur les lieux. Il ne croit guère a un accident de chasse. Au cours de sa longue carrière au sein de l'escouade des homicides, il a appris a se méfier des apparences. Tandis que ses adjoints procèdent aux premiers interrogatoires, il s'abstrait du tumulte, s'assied sur un banc, dans le parc du village, s'imprègne des lieux et fait ce qu'il sait faire le mieux : il observe. Alors, lentement, a force d'attention, la perfection du tableau s'estompe. Des craquelures d'abord invisibles lézardent le vernis, l'œil averti devine les retouches, les coupables repentirs, les inavouables repeints. Bientôt, la fresque idyllique livrera ses terribles secrets... Avec ce premier volet des enquêtes de l'inspecteur-chef Armand Gamache, Louise Penny a concocté un roman plein de charme, de subtilité et d'humour, dans la plus pure tradition des grands maîtres de la littérature

The incredible new book in Louise Penny's #1 bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache series.When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is asked to provide crowd control at a statistics lecture given at the Universite de l'Estrie in Quebec, he is dubious. Why ask the head of homicide to provide security for what sounds like a minor, even mundane lecture?But dangerous ideas about who deserves to live in order for society to thrive are rapidly gaining popularity, fuelled by the research of the eminent Professor Abigail Robinson. Yet for every person seduced by her theories there is another who is horrified by them.When a murder is committed days after the lecture, it's clear that within crowds can lie madness.To uncover the truth, Gamache must put his own feelings about the divisive Professor to one side. But with her ideas gaining ground, the line separating good and evil, right and wrong, is quickly blurring - especially when the case leads unexpectedly close to home ...

Nach einem harten Winter erwacht Three Pines zu neuem Leben. Wahrend die Dorfbewohner Vorbereitungen fur einen ganz besonderen Gedenktag treffen, machen sich Chief Inspector Armand Gamache und Jean-Guy Beauvoir zunehmend Sorgen: Ein junger Mann und seine Schwester sind nach Three Pines zuruckgekehrt. Als die Ermittler sie kennengelernt haben, waren Fiona und Samuel noch Kinder. Ihre Mutter war ermordet worden, an einem trostlosen Novembermorgen am Ufer eines gottverlassenen Sees. Es war der erste gemeinsame Fall der Ermittler. Was wollen die Geschwister Jahre spater in Three Pines? Wahrend Gamache versucht, Antworten zu finden, wird der 160 Jahre alte Brief eines Steinmetzes entdeckt. Darin beschreibt der Mann, wie ihn die Angst uberkam, als er im Dorf eine Dachkammer zumauerte. Die Bewohner von Three Pines finden den Raum und beschlieen, ihn zu offnen. Gamache merkt bald, dass mehr darin steckt, als man auf den ersten Blick sieht. Durch die Enthullung betritt ein alter Feind ihre Welt und bedroht, was Gamache am meisten bedeutet: sein Zuhause.