Publisher Description

CC de Poitiers managed to alienate everyone in the hamlet of Three Pines, right up to the moment she died. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache begins his investigation, it seems like an impossible murder: CC was electrocuted on a frozen lake, in front of the entire town, during the annual curling tournament. With compassion and courage, Gamache digs beneath the idyllic surface of village life to find long buried secrets, while his own enemies threaten to bring something even more chilling than the bitter winter winds to Three Pines.

Author Biography

Louise Penny, author of the "New York Times" bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache novels, worked as an award-winning journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation before leaving to write crime fiction. Her first mystery, "Still Life," was the winner of the New Blood Dagger and the Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys Awards; and was also named one of the five Mystery/Crime Novels of the Decade by "Deadly Pleasures" magazine. Louise went on to become the first writer ever to win the Agatha Award for Best Novel four times, as well as an Anthony Award for "The Brutal Telling" and the Dilys, Arthur Ellis, Macavity, and Anthony Awards for "Bury Your Dead." Her novels are bestsellers in the United States and Great Britain and have been translated into twenty languages. She lives with her husband, Michael, in a small village south of Montreal.

Review

"Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie, and while there is a surface resemblance there, it sells her short." --"Booklist" (starred review)
"[Penny] continues to deepen and modernize the traditional 'village mystery.'" --"People
""Louise Penny applies her magic...giving the village mystery an elegance and depth." --"New York Times Book Review"

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