How to read Louise Penny books in order
How to read Louise Penny books in order
Louise Penny—born in Toronto—is a Canadian author from Quebec, most known for her series of mystery novels. Her rise to fame and the top of book charts came in 2005 with the publication of her freshman novel Still Life, which introduced the now legendary Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, the protagonist of most of her subsequent novels and the hero of Three Pines, the small village under his protection.
Penny’s Inspector Gamache series has been well-received by readers and critics alike, receiving many awards, including the Agatha Award, the Anthony Award, and the Macavity Award. She’s written more some twenty novels, and they’ve been published in just as many languages. Before becoming a prolific novelist, Penny worked as a journalist and a radio host.
Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache book series
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, our protagonist, works for Sûreté du Québec, a provincial Quebec police force. He’s got a lot of experience under his belt, but it’s actually his compassion that makes him the hero for the villagers. He’s an idealist, a man convinced that the light will ultimately prevail over the darkness, and so he never fails to look at the bright side of things.
The Chief Inspector Gamache series spans eighteen books, although the protagonist appears in an additional novella titled The Hangman and a book called State of Terror, co-authored with Hillary Clinton, which does not constitute a part of the series. Below, we have a list of recommendations for those looking to get into the series. Other honorable mentions include A Great Reckoning, The Madness of Crowds, The Nature of the Beast, and A World of Curiosities.
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Still Life
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 06, 2014
- Language: English
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3.9(163206 ratings)
3.9(163206 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDIn Still Life, bestselling author Louise Penny introduces Monsieur L’Inspecteur Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec, a modern Poirot who anchors this beloved traditional mystery series Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry,In Still Life, bestselling author Louise Penny introduces Monsieur L’Inspecteur Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec, a modern Poirot who anchors this beloved traditional mystery series
Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards.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 Jane Neal died at the hands of someone much more sinister than a careless bowhunter.
Still Life introduces not only an engaging series hero in Inspector Gamache, who commands his forces—and this series—with integrity and quiet courage, but also a winning and talented new writer of traditional mysteries in the person of Louise Penny.
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A Fatal Grace
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: May 06, 2014
- Language: English
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4.1(75286 ratings)
4.1(75286 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDWinner of the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel! From the Dagger award winning author Louise Penny comes the second Armand Gamache mystery set in the stunning countryside of Quebec. Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec,Winner of the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel!
From the Dagger award winning author Louise Penny comes the second Armand Gamache mystery set in the stunning countryside of Quebec.
Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is preparing for murder.
No one liked CC de Poitiers. Not her quiet husband, not her spineless lover, not her pathetic daughter–and certainly none of the residents of Three Pines. CC de Poitiers managed to alienate everyone, right up until the moment of her death.
When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, of the Surete du Quebec, is called to investigate, he quickly realizes he’s dealing with someone quite extraordinary. CC de Poitiers was electrocuted in the middle of a frozen lake, in front of the entire village, as she watched the annual curling tournament. And yet no one saw anything. Who could have been insane enough to try such a macabre method of murder–or brilliant enough to succeed?
With his trademark compassion and courage, Gamache digs beneath the idyllic surface of village life to find the dangerous secrets long buried there. For a Quebec winter is not only staggeringly beautiful but deadly, and the people of Three Pines know better than to reveal too much of themselves. But other dangers are becoming clear to Gamache. As a bitter wind blows into the village, something even more chilling is coming for Gamache himself.
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The Cruelest Month
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.15(59172 ratings)
4.15(59172 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDListen to the series that inspired Three Pines on Prime Video.“Narrator Ralph Cosham evokes the idyllic Quebec village of Three Pines with skillful handling of the often funny, often conflicted people who live there.” —AudioFileListen to the series that inspired Three Pines on Prime Video.
“Narrator Ralph Cosham evokes the idyllic Quebec village of Three Pines with skillful handling of the often funny, often conflicted people who live there.” —AudioFile MagazineThe Cruelest Month is the third installment in Louise Penny’s award winning Three Pines mystery series featuring the wise and beleaguered Inspector Armand Gamache.
“Many mystery buffs have credited Louise Penny with the revival of the type of traditional murder mystery made famous by Agatha Christie … ” –Sarah Weinman
Welcome to Three Pines, where the cruelest month is about to deliver on its threat.
It’s spring in the tiny, forgotten village; buds are on the trees and the first flowers are struggling through the newly thawed earth. But not everything is meant to return to life. . .
When some villagers decide to celebrate Easter with a seance at the Old Hadley House, they are hoping to rid the town of its evil–until one of their party dies of fright. Was this a natural death, or was the victim somehow helped along?
Brilliant, compassionate Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec is called to investigate, in a case that will force him to face his own ghosts as well as those of a seemingly idyllic town where relationships are far more dangerous than they seem.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press
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The Brutal Telling
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 13 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 18, 2016
- Language: English
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4.23(52788 ratings)
4.23(52788 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Ralph Cosham delivers a delightful accent for Gamache and invests all the characters with small-town likability.” —AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three“Ralph Cosham delivers a delightful accent for Gamache and invests all the characters with small-town likability.” —AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines The Brutal Telling, the fifth book in Louise Penny’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Chaos is coming, old son.With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier’s Bistro–including a stranger whose murdered body is found on the floor. When Chief Inspector Gamache is called to investigate, he is dismayed to discover that Olivier’s story is full of holes. Why are his fingerprints all over the cabin that’s uncovered deep in the wilderness, with priceless antiques and the dead man’s blood? And what other secrets and layers of lies are buried in the seemingly idyllic village?
Gamache follows a trail of clues and treasures–from first editions of Charlotte’s Web and Jane Eyre to a spiderweb with a word mysteriously woven in it–into the woods and across the continent, before returning to Three Pines to confront the truth and the final, brutal telling.
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Bury Your Dead
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 12 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 28, 2010
- Language: English
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4.35(52941 ratings)
4.35(52941 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Ralph Cosham’s excellent narration of Louise Penny’s newest mystery demonstrates why a terrific narrator is an author’s best partner.” —AudioFile Magazine Bury Your Dead is a novel about life and death–and“Ralph Cosham’s excellent narration of Louise Penny’s newest mystery demonstrates why a terrific narrator is an author’s best partner.” —AudioFile Magazine
Bury Your Dead is a novel about life and death–and all the mystery that remains–from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is on break from duty in Three Pines to attend the famed Winter Carnival up north. He has arrived in this beautiful, freezing city not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. Still, violent death is inescapable–even here, in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society, where one obsessive academic’s quest for answers will lead Gamache down a dark path . . .
Meanwhile, Gamache is receiving disturbing news from his hometown village. Beloved bistro owner Olivier was recently convicted of murder but everyone–including Gamache–believes that he is innocent. Who is behind this sinister plot? Now it’s up to Gamache to solve this killer case . . . and relive a terrible event from his own past before he can begin to bury his dead.
“Few writers in any genre can match Penny’s ability to combine heartbreak and hope.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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A Trick of the Light
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 30, 2011
- Language: English
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4.31(49557 ratings)
4.31(49557 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDA New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011 A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller books for 2011 With A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny takes us back to the deceptively peaceful village of Three Pines in this brilliantA New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011
A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller books for 2011
With A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny takes us back to the deceptively peaceful village of Three Pines in this brilliant novel in her award-winning, New York Times bestselling series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.“Hearts are broken,” Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. “Sweet relationships are dead.”
But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow’s garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara’s solo show at the famed Musee in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Surete du Quebec, is called to the tiny Quebec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light. Where nothing is as it seems. Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart.
And even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to Gamache and his team if what they’ve found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light.“Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie [but] it sells her short. Her characters are too rich, her grasp of nuance and human psychology too firm….” —Booklist (starred review)
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The Beautiful Mystery
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 13 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 28, 2012
- Language: English
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4.19(43698 ratings)
4.19(43698 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDThe brilliant novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Louise Penny, one of the most acclaimed crime writers of our timeNo outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness ofThe brilliant novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Louise Penny, one of the most acclaimed crime writers of our time
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 live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks have become world-famous for their glorious voices, raised in ancient chants whose effect on both singer and listener is so profound it is known as “the beautiful mystery.”But when the renowned choir director is murdered, the lock on the monastery’s massive wooden door is drawn back to admit Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Surete du Quebec. There they discover disquiet beneath the silence, discord in the apparent harmony. One of the brothers, in this life of prayer and contemplation, has been contemplating murder. As the peace of the monastery crumbles, Gamache is forced to confront some of his own demons, as well as those roaming the remote corridors. Before finding the killer, before restoring peace, the Chief must first consider the divine, the human, and the cracks in between.
The Beautiful Mystery is the winner of the 2012 Agatha Award for best novel, the 2013 Anthony Award for best novel and the 2013 Macavity Award for best novel.
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How the Light Gets In
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 15 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 27, 2013
- Language: English
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4.46(56937 ratings)
4.46(56937 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0032.99 USDHow the Light Gets In is the ninth Chief Inspector Gamache Novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” —Leonard Cohen Christmas is approaching,How the Light Gets In is the ninth Chief Inspector Gamache Novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny.
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” —Leonard CohenChristmas is approaching, and in Quebec it’s a time of dazzling snowfalls, bright lights, and gatherings with friends in front of blazing hearths. But shadows are falling on the usually festive season for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. Most of his best agents have left the Homicide Department, his old friend and lieutenant Jean-Guy Beauvoir hasn’t spoken to him in months, and hostile forces are lining up against him. When Gamache receives a message from Myrna Landers that a longtime friend has failed to arrive for Christmas in the village of Three Pines, he welcomes the chance to get away from the city. Mystified by Myrna’s reluctance to reveal her friend’s name, Gamache soon discovers the missing woman was once one of the most famous people not just in North America, but in the world, and now goes unrecognized by virtually everyone except the mad, brilliant poet Ruth Zardo.
As events come to a head, Gamache is drawn ever deeper into the world of Three Pines. Increasingly, he is not only investigating the disappearance of Myrna’s friend but also seeking a safe place for himself and his still-loyal colleagues. Is there peace to be found even in Three Pines, and at what cost to Gamache and the people he holds dear?
One of Publishers Weekly‘s Best Mystery/Thriller Books of 2013
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The Long Way Home
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 26, 2014
- Language: English
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4.07(41611 ratings)
4.07(41611 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDHappily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Surete du Quebec, has found a peace he’d only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, TheHappily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Surete du Quebec, has found a peace he’d only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. “There is a balm in Gilead,” his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, “to make the wounded whole.”
While Gamache doesn’t talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. She wants Gamache’s help to find him. Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. “There’s power enough in Heaven,” he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, “to cure a sin-sick soul.” And then he gets up. And joins her.
Together with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey deeper and deeper into Quebec. And deeper and deeper into the soul of Peter Morrow. A man so desperate to recapture his fame as an artist, he would sell that soul. And may have. The journey takes them further and further from Three Pines, to the very mouth of the great St. Lawrence river. To an area so desolate, so damned, the first mariners called it The land God gave to Cain. And there they discover the terrible damage done by a sin-sick soul.
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Glass Houses
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 29, 2017
- Language: English
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4.32(40753 ratings)
4.32(40753 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“…the events in GLASS HOUSES challenge Gamache’s conscience unlike any of the previous audiobooks, with Bathurst prying open the hero’s heart and soul and laying it bare for listeners to experience at a visceral level.”“…the events in GLASS HOUSES challenge Gamache’s conscience unlike any of the previous audiobooks, with Bathurst prying open the hero’s heart and soul and laying it bare for listeners to experience at a visceral level.” — Audiofile Magazine
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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 moment its shadow falls over the village, Gamache, now Chief Superintendent of the Surete du Quebec, suspects the creature has deep roots and a dark purpose. Yet he does nothing. What can he do? Only watch and wait. And hope his mounting fears are not realized.
But when the figure vanishes overnight and a body is discovered, it falls to Gamache to discover if a debt has been paid or levied.
Months later, on a steamy July day as the trial for the accused begins in Montreal, Chief Superintendent Gamache continues to struggle with actions he set in motion that bitter November, from which there is no going back. More than the accused is on trial. Gamache’s own conscience is standing in judgment.
In Glass Houses, her latest utterly gripping audiobook, number-one New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny shatters the conventions of the crime novel to explore what Gandhi called the court of conscience. A court that supersedes all others.
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Kingdom of the Blind
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 27, 2018
- Language: English
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4.33(35811 ratings)
4.33(35811 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD**Winner of the 2020 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator** “[Narrator Robert Bathurst] engages us completely…If you haven’t listened to this series, start at once. You’ll love your stay in Three Pines.” — AudioFile**Winner of the 2020 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator**
“[Narrator Robert Bathurst] engages us completely…If you haven’t listened to this series, start at once. You’ll love your stay in Three Pines.” — AudioFile Magazine on A Great Reckoning
Kingdom of the Blind, the new Chief Inspector Gamache audiobook 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.
None of them had ever met the elderly woman.
The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional. But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly sane?
When a body is found, the terms of the bizarre will suddenly seem less peculiar and far more menacing.
But it isn’t the only menace Gamache is facing.
The investigation into what happened six months ago–the events that led to his suspension–has dragged on, into the dead of winter. And while most of the opioids he allowed to slip through his hands, in order to bring down the cartels, have been retrieved, there is one devastating exception.
Enough narcotic to kill thousands has disappeared into inner city Montreal. With the deadly drug about to hit the streets, Gamache races for answers.
As he uses increasingly audacious, even desperate, measures to retrieve the drug, Armand Gamache begins to see his own blind spots. And the terrible things hiding there.
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A Better Man
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 13 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 27, 2019
- Language: English
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4.3(34709 ratings)
4.3(34709 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“Robert Bathurst’s intelligent narration captures every nuance, every emotion, and each of Louise Penny’s subtle revelations about the unique, completely engaging residents of Three Pines.” — AudioFile Magazine,“Robert Bathurst’s intelligent narration captures every nuance, every emotion, and each of Louise Penny’s subtle revelations about the unique, completely engaging residents of Three Pines.” — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
Catastrophic 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.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 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 title 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 child’s killer walked free?
Praise for A Better Man:
“‘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 Review
“With an uncompromising eye, Penny explores the depths of human emotion, both horrifying and sublime. Her love for her characters and for the mystical village of Three Pines is apparent on every page.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
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All the Devils Are Here
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 13 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.44(38020 ratings)
4.44(38020 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD*INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*“Robert Bathurst is just about perfect delivering the 16th Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novel…Listen to all the Gamache audiobooks for maximum satisfaction.” — AudioFile Magazine,*INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
“Robert Bathurst is just about perfect delivering the 16th Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novel…Listen to all the Gamache audiobooks for maximum satisfaction.” — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
In All the Devils Are Here, the 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete 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 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 at the Surete, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d’Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art.
It sends them deep into the secrets Armand’s godfather has kept for decades.
A gruesome discovery in Stephen’s Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized.
Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. His own family.
For even the City of Light casts long shadows. And in that darkness devils hide.
A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books
“Bathurst superbly manipulates tone, volume, and pace to highlight this range of emotions. Paris is described beautifully, and Bathurst lingers over these descriptive passages that will speak to any traveler’s soul…” — Booklist, starred review
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The Madness of Crowds
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 14 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 24, 2021
- Language: English
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4.22(31092 ratings)
4.22(31092 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0032.99 USD“Robert Bathurst’s narration is calm, collected, and earnest, reflecting the blend of emotion and professionalism that Gamache embodies as an investigator. It’s perfect for listeners seeking both captivating intrigue and insightful“Robert Bathurst’s narration is calm, collected, and earnest, reflecting the blend of emotion and professionalism that Gamache embodies as an investigator. It’s perfect for listeners seeking both captivating intrigue and insightful reflection.” – BookPage
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny’s latest spellbinding novelYou’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 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 to be a non-event. A visiting Professor of Statistics will be giving a lecture at the nearby university.
While he is perplexed as to why the head of homicide for the Surete du Quebec would be assigned this task, it sounds easy enough. That is until Gamache starts looking into Professor Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture.
They refuse, citing academic freedom, and accuse Gamache of censorship and intellectual cowardice. Before long, Professor Robinson’s views start seeping into conversations. Spreading and infecting. So that truth and fact, reality and delusion are so confused it’s near impossible to tell them apart.
Discussions become debates, debates become arguments, which turn into fights. As sides are declared, a madness takes hold.
Abigail Robinson promises that, if they follow her, ca va bien aller. All will be well. But not, Gamache and his team know, for everyone.
When a murder is committed it falls to Armand Gamache, his second-in-command Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and their team to investigate the crime as well as this extraordinary popular delusion.
And the madness of crowds.
A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books
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A World of Curiosities
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrator: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 13 hours 15 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: November 29, 2022
- Language: English
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4.6(13928 ratings)
4.6(13928 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0032.99 USD“Robert Bathurst performs this 18th Inspector Gamache mystery with the assurance of one who knows the village of Three Pines and its (mostly) gentle residents well….fans are in for a treat.” – AudioFile Magazine (Earphones“Robert Bathurst performs this 18th Inspector Gamache mystery with the assurance of one who knows the village of Three Pines and its (mostly) gentle residents well….fans are in for a treat.” – AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner)
“Robert Bathurst’s narration is calm, collected, and earnest, reflecting the blend of emotion and professionalism that Gamache embodies as an investigator. It’s perfect for listeners seeking both captivating intrigue and insightful reflection.” – BookPageChief 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 woman have reappeared in the Surete du Quebec investigators’ lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines.
But to what end?
Gamache and Beauvoir’s memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Did their mother’s murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered and are now about to erupt?
As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up.
As the bricks are removed, Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there’s more in that room than meets the eye. There are puzzles within puzzles, and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge.
In unsealing that room, an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the very heart of Armand Gamache’s home.
A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.
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Speechify booklists feature dozens of thousands of titles, including countless New York Times and Amazon bestsellers in the mystery and crime thriller genres. Download Speechify on your phone or computer and accompany Gamache, Poirot, and Sherlock Holmes on their next adventure.
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