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The third novel in our multi-award-winning Canadian crime series featuring Chief Inspector Gamache of the Saretegrave; du Quebec and set in the picturesque village of Three Pines. The novel takes place at Easter ndash; traditionally a time for death, and for spirits coming back from the dead... Gamache is called to Three Pines when a segrave;ance attended by locals goes horrifyingly wrong, and a woman is found on the floor, apparently scared to death. Something frightened Madeleine Favreau so much that it literally stopped her heart, but Gamache knows her killer is from this world, not the next. Meanwhile, Gamache's own enemies high up within the Saretegrave; du Quebec are moving in for the kill, and the Inspector waits for the Judas within his own team to strike. But what exactly does the traitor want and, more importantly, how far will they go to ensure Gamache's downfall?

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

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

Le petit Laurent Lepage, 9 ans, invente sans cesse de nouveaux mensonges, si bien qu'aucun adulte ne le croit plus. Lorsque l'enfant dispara®t, Armand Gamache désormais retraité á Three Pines est for

L'ex-inspecteur Gamache a quitté la tªte de la section des homicides de la S"reté du Québec pour une retraite bien méritée. Alors qu'il coule des jours heureux á Three Pines, son amie Clara vient le retrouver pour lui signaler la disparition de son mari Peter. Gamache part a la recherche de ce dernier a travers les paysages de Charlevoix et du fin fond du Quebec.

A Better Man,' with its mix of meteorological suspense, psychological insight and criminal pursuit, is arguably the best book yet in an outstanding, original oeuvre. Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal"Enchanting... one of his most ennobling missions." Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book ReviewCatastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Surete du Quebec in the latest novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.Its Gamaches 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.Increasingly hounded by the question, how would you feel, he resumes the search.As the rivers rise, and the social media onslaught against Gamache becomes crueler, a body is discovered. And in the tumult, mistakes are made.In the next novel in this constantly surprising series that deepens and darkens as it evolves (New York Times Book Review), Gamache must face a horrific possibility, and a burning question.What would you do if your childs killer walked free?

La verdad no permanecerá enterrada...Esta entrega de la serie de novela negra protagonizada por el inspector Armand Gamache es la obra más premiada de Louise Penny, el aclamado autor deNaturaleza muerta.Mientras Quebec se estremece en pleno invierno y el frio agrieta la piedra de sus viejas murallas, el inspector jefe Gamache, de baja tras una tragica operacion policial, trata de recobrar fuerzas en la casa de su amigo y mentor, Emile Comeau, en el casco antiguo de la ciudad. Hundido fisica y psicologicamente, el celebre jefe de Homicidios intenta sosegar su mente con un proyecto personal que lo lleva a diario a la Sociedad Literaria e Historica, un centrico edificio que alberga miles de volumenes legados durante decadas por la minoritaria comunidad inglesa de Quebec.Pero en una de sus visitas, Gamache se topa con la vieja biblioteca acordonada: han hallado el cadaver de un hombre en su lobrego sotano. La victima es Augustin Renaud, un excentrico aficionado a la arqueologia obsesionado con la busqueda de la esquiva tumba de Samuel de Champlain, fundador de la ciudad de Quebec en 1608.¿Que hacia Renaud en la sociedad? ¿Es posible que los restos del venerado heroe nacional descansen entre los muros de la emblematica institucion? Si bien Gamache se habia jurado guardar reposo, no puede evitar involucrarse en una apasionante investigacion, fuera de los canales oficiales, que sacara a la luz peligrosos secretos que llevaban siglos durmiendo.Premios:* Anthony Award* Agatha Award* Macavity Award* Arthur Ellis Award* Mejor Novela de Misterio por la Asociacion de Libreros de America,Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly y BooklistLacritica hadicho...Una novela excepcional. Del 1 al 10, un 11.A. Fontana,ABC CulturalSi es aficionado al genero negro y no esta leyendo a Louise Penny tenemos un problema. Si se jacta de no leer genero negro porque cree saber lo que ofrece (y lo que no), Louise Penny puede hacer una hoguera con sus prejuicios.Antonio Lozano,La Vanguardia,Cultura/sUn autentico tour de force narrativo. Penny toca todas las teclas a la perfeccion en una de las novelas de misterio mejor construidas y mas emotivas de los ultimos años.BooklistCon independencia del genero al que se dediquen, contados escritores alcanzan la habilidad de Penny a la hora de combinar en una misma escena la desolacion y la esperanza. Cada vez mas ambiciosa en sus tramas, continua creando personajes que los lectores desearian poder conocer en la vida real.Publishers WeeklyComplejo y emotivo. Su mejor libro hasta el momento.People MagazineQue empiecen a lloverle los premios.Kirkus ReviewsSoberbia. Brillantemente provocadora.Library JournalPenny es una narradora de primera categoria. Despues de leer la novela, sentira deseos de mudarse a Montreal para ser vecino de Gamache o, mejor aun, a Three Pines, con sus excentricos habitantes.Kirkus ReviewsCrimenes, un detective seductor y una atmosfera magnifica.The Times

A cracking storyteller, who can create fascinating characters, a twisty plot and wonderful surprise endings' ANN CLEEVES There is more to solving a crime than following the clues. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings. The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships.Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force. But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets... Ten million readers.

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA December 2018 Indie Next PickOne of Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2018 PicksBookPage Best of the Year 2018A LibraryReads Pick for November 2018A LibraryReads Hall of Fame WinnerWashington Post's 10 Books to Read This NovemberOne of PopSugars Best Fall Books to Curl Up WithA captivating, wintry whodunit. PEOPLE"A constantly surprising series that deepens and darkens as it evolves." Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book ReviewKingdom of the Blind, the new Chief Inspector Gamache novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Surete du Quebec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder.

Louise Penny's writing is intricate, beautiful and compelling' PETER JAMESThere is more to solving a crime than following the clues.Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings.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...Ten million readers.Three pines.One inimitable Chief Inspector Gamache.'Penny is a joy' IRISH TIMES

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 ...

Una magnífica novela sobre la lealtad y la traición, la moralidad y la corrupción, las luces y las sombras de nuestras sociedades contemporáneas. La Navidad está a la vuelta de la esquina, y en Quebec eso significa nevadas que encandilan, luces de colores y encuentros con amigos ante una chimenea encendida. Sin embargo, para Armand Gamache, el inspector jefe de la Surete du Quebec, estas fechas normalmente festivas quedan ensombrecidas: algunos de sus mejores agentes del Departamento de Homicidios han sido trasladados a otrasunidades, lleva meses sin hablar con su viejo amigo, el teniente Jean-Guy Beauvoir, y fuerzas hostiles estan alineandose contra el. Asi, cuando recibe un mensaje de Myrna Landers desde el pueblecito de Three Pines, Gamache lo ve como una oportunidad para escapar unas horas de la ciudad. Una amiga de Myrna que iba a pasar la Navidad en el pueblo no se ha presentado. Aunque la anfitriona se resiste al principio a decir de quien se trata, el inspectorjefe no tardara en descubrir que la desaparecida fue una de las mujeres mas famosas no solo de Norteamerica, sino del mundo entero. A medida que avanza en sus investigaciones, y en medio de idas y venidas entre Montreal y Three Pines durante un invierno muy duro, Gamache destapa un

WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD FOR BEST MYSTERY NOVEL 2021***'Makes most of her competitors seem like wannabes' THE TIMESThere is more to solving a crime than following the clues.Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings.On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather for a family dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. But the evening ends in horror when Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Armand is convinced is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on an elderly man's life.When a strange key is found in Stephen's possession it sends Armand on a desperate search for the truth that will take him from the top of the Tour Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives.And as Armand begins to uncover the secrets his godfather has kept hidden for decades, he finds himself ensnared in a web of lies and deceit that threatens to destroy everything - and everyone - he holds dear.

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 ...

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, examin

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?

Una novela a la vez atmosferica y llena de suspense; las más ingeniosa de Louise Penny hasta la fecha. Felizmente retirado en el idílico pueblo de Three Pines, el inspector jefe Armand Gamache ha hallado un remanso de paz dificil de imaginar. Pero la monotona placidez de la lectura y la felicidad del sol matutino se truncan cuando Clara Morrow le cuenta que Peter, su marido, ha incumplido la promesa de volver a casa un año despues de su separacion y le pide ayuda para encontrarlo.A medida que Gamache se sumerge en el caso, tambien lo hace en la torturada mente de Peter Morrow, un pintor tan desesperado por recuperar su fama que seria capaz de vender su alma al diablo. Junto con su antiguo segundo al mando, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, y Myrna Landers, emprende un viaje que los llevara cada vez mas lejos de Three Pines, hasta la desembocadura del rio San Lorenzo, para acabar descubriendo un rastro mortal de envidia y engaño que pondra su vida en peligro.Decima entrega de la extraordinaria serie protagonizada por Armand Gamache que ha cautivado a mas de once millones de lectores en todo el mundo, El largo camino a casa es una penetrante investigacion psicologica sobre la creacion y la lucha de los artistas consigo mismos y con su obra. Una novela atmosferic

Louise Penny, con su prosa envolvente y sensual y su talento para subyugarnos con los mínimos detalles del entorno y los rasgos más sutiles de los personajes, no hace más que subrayar la sempiterna ignominia que permanece agazapada en el fondo del ser humano, lista para dar el zarpazo en cualquier instante. Una noche fria y oscura, dos hombres conversan frente al hogar de una cabaña oculta entre la espesura de un bosque de Quebec. Uno de ellos relata una aciaga historia, de dimensiones casi miticas, que culmina en el caos y la violencia. Al dia siguiente, la aparicion del cadaver de uno de los contertulios conmociona a los residentes de la apacible localidad de Three Pines, cerca de la frontera con Vermont. Desde Montreal acude el afamado inspector Armand Gamache, jefe del Departamento de Homicidios de la Surete du Quebec, y su equipo de colaboradores, que se encuentran con un cuerpo manchado de sangre que nadie parece reconocer, lo ultimo que uno esperaria en un pueblo que se diria salido de una fabula infantil.Sin embargo, incluso en las comunidades de apariencia mas bucolica, la calidez de sus habitantes, la solidaridad entre vecinos y el ambiente acogedor de sus moradas pueden esconder secretos inconfesables y episodios tenebrosos. Asi pues,