A Better Man by Louise Penny is the latest addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling series starring Armand Gamache. She has done it again. With a vengeance. Take the same backwater in Québec, the same core of main characters, and write fifteen crime stories with that. You will probably end up with predictable…
The first Canadian winner of the Edgar for Best Novel features, perhaps stereotypically, features a Mountie and a librarian politely declining to discuss a murder where they both know whodunnit. The Mountie is Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg, a divorced forty-something who misses his daughters back in Calgary but has no intention of leaving his posting…
Glass Houses will be the 13th novel in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. Pre-order your copy today! When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead. From the…
Brrr. It’s getting cold out there! With all the snow hitting the east coast, we started to think about all the winter mysteries out there. There’s something extra sinister about a setting that’s dark, cold, and quiet that makes for a perfect murder mystery. And there are plenty of snow-covered countries where our favorites take…
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny is the 6th Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery, and the winner of the 2010 Agatha Award for “Best Novel.” The dedication at the beginning of this Agatha Award winner is to second chances, both to those that give them and those that take them. Life is built on second, third,…
A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny is the 2007 Agatha Award winner for “Best Novel,” and the 2nd in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. Had CC de Poitiers known she was going to be murdered, she might have bought her husband, Richard, a Christmas gift. She might even have gone to her daughter's end of…
A Great Reckoning will be the 12th novel in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. Pre-order your copy today! 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…
Deadly Jewels by Jeannette de Beauvoir follows Martine LeDuc, a publicity director for the city of Montreal, who joins an excavation project searching for the stolen British crown jewels, only to discover a decades-old murder that leads her down the dangerous path to trouble (Available March 8, 2016). When Martine LeDuc, publicity director for the…
A Great Reckoning will be the 12th novel in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. Pre-order your copy today! To learn more or pre-order a copy, visit: Click here for more Louise Penny at Criminal Element, and make sure you're signed up for our newsletter so you can stay up to date with all things mystery!
A Great Reckoning will be the 12th novel in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. Pre-order your copy today! To learn more or order a copy, visit: Click here for more Louise Penny at Criminal Element, and make sure you're signed up for our newsletter so you can stay up to date…
