Louise Penny
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Qu�ebec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the S�uret�e, as he sits with his wife in their back garden. Reine-Marie watches with increasing unease as her husband refuses to pick up, though he...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the S�uret�e du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a visiting professor spreads lies so that fact and fiction are so confused it's nearly impossible to tell them apart, leading to murder, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache must investigate this case as well as this extraordinary popular delusion.
You’re a coward.
Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache.
It starts innocently enough.
While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in Penny's series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the S�uret�e du...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The next novel in the Chief Inspector Gamache series"--
Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache. While the residents of the Quebec village of Three Pines take advantage of the deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted by a simple request. He's asked to provide security for what promises...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
" 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. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Sûreté du Québec to places even he is afraid to go. But...
7) Glass houses
Author
Series
[A Chief Inspector Gamache novel] volume 13
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious figure travels through Three Pines and leaves a dead body in its wake, Armand Gamache pursues a difficult investigation that yields unexpected consequences and forces him into a battle with his own conscience.--
8) A better man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Searching for a missing woman amid a catastrophic flood and blistering social media attacks, a demoted Armand Gamache bonds with the victim's distraught father, who contemplates a murder of his own.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When a 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. None of them had ever met the elderly woman. The will includes bequests that are...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a young boy prone to crying wolf goes missing, village newcomers Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache join a frantic search for the child only to stumble on a community secret about a long-ago betrayal and murder.
Author
Series
Chief Inspector Gamache novel volume 16
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the S�uret�e du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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. None of them had ever met the elderly woman. The will is so odd and includes...
14) A better man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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...
15) Still life
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Enjoying a peaceful retirement, former Quebec homicide detective Armand Gamache reluctantly agrees to help a neighbor search for her missing estranged husband and teams up with two former colleagues on a search that reveals the workings of a damaged mind.
17) A fatal grace
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to a village south of Montreal to investigate the death of CC de Poitiers, an extremely unpopular woman apparently killed in an electrical accident, Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec finds that nearly everyone in town had a motive to kill her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Edition
1st Minotaur Books pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 351 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a murder at a solo artist's Quebec village home, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team encounter deceptive nuances in the art world that distort every clue they find with tales of duality and broken hearts.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man's life. When a strange key is found in Stephen's possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command...
20) State of Terror
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
This high-stakes thriller 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...