Chief Inspector Gamache
Louise Penny Bundle Sweepstakes
By Crime HQ
May 7, 2018To celebrate Louise Penny’s seventh Agatha Award win at the recent Malice Domestic convention, as well as the paperback publication of Glass Houses, we’re giving away a Louise Penny prize pack to ten lucky winners! A limited edition Louise Penny/Malice Domestic tote bag A Louise Penny leather bookmark A paperback… Read more
Discount: The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
By Crime HQ
January 9, 2018The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny is the 11th book in the New York Times bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache series. Get a digital copy of The Nature of the Beast for only $2.99 through February 5th! Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't… Read more
Criminal Element’s Best Books of 2017
By Crime HQ
December 20, 20172017 was a killer year for books! A couple of phenomenal debuts combined with some series regulars to fill our e-readers and bookshelves all year. With 2018 right around the corner, we present our picks for the best books of 2017:
Discount: How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
By Crime HQ
November 2, 2017One of Publishers Weekly's Best Mystery/Thriller Books of 2013, one of The Washington Post's Top 10 Books of the Year, and an NPR Best Book of 2013, get Louise Penny's ninth Chief Inspector Gamache novel, How the Light Gets In, for only $2.99 through the entire month of November! “There… Read more
Discount: The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
By Crime HQ
September 25, 2017The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny is the eighth book in the acclaimed Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series—get a digital copy for only $2.99 through the month of October! No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks… Read more
Discount: A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
By Crime HQ
September 1, 2017In celebration of the release of Louise Penny's 13th Chief Inspector Gamache mystery, Glass Houses (available now!), get a digital copy of the seventh book in the series, A Trick of the Light, for only $2.99 through September! “Hearts are broken,” Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. “Sweet relationships are… Read more
5 New Books to Read this Week: August 29, 2017
By Crime HQ
August 30, 2017Every Wednesday, we here at Criminal Element will put together a list of Staff Picks of the books that published the day before—sharing the ones that we are looking forward to reading the most! The 13th Chief Inspector Gamache mystery from Louise Penny and the seventh Sharpe & Donovan novel by… Read more
Review: Glass Houses by Louise Penny
By John Valeri
Glass Houses by Louise Penny is the 13th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series, which shatters the conventions of the crime novel to explore what Gandhi called the court of conscience—a court that supersedes all others. Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny returns with Glass Houses—the… Read more
Discount: The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
By Crime HQ
June 14, 2017Through the month of June, get a digital copy of Louise Penny's fifth Chief Inspector Gamache Novel, The Brutal Telling, for only $2.99! Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. As families prepare to head back to the city and children say goodbye… Read more