Beautiful Mystery on a Roll

Louise Penny's latest Inspector Gamache mystery is out and rolling up all the prizes and the excellent reviews.  Penny works hard, not only as a writer but as a superb marketer.  Right now she is on an extensive book tour around the continent where she meets adoring fans.  And she has a great book to sell.

Chief Inspector Gamache and Inspector Beauvoir, of the Sûreté du Québec, go to a remote monastery where they encounter the monks, the murder and music so glorious it became known, through the centuries, as "the beautiful mystery."

Penny writes, "And now The Beautiful Mystery has been published, I get to imagine you holding the book, reading about the monks, about the chants, about Gamache trying to tease the truth out of a community of men who have spent lifetimes concealing how they really feel. He must get silent monks to speak. And he must, in the great silence, see that while they are not talking, these men are still communicating."

Louise Penny Launches a New Book

 Louise Writes: :This is it! August. The month THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY finally sees the light of day. Well over a year in the planning, thinking, researching, and then, the writing. And so much anticipation. I sometimes feel I'm going to explode from excitement/anxiety.

As you know, that simply goes with the territory. I suspect you often feel the same way, when something, or someone, you care about is about to be exposed to the public. I think anxiety isn't so much a mark of insecurity, as a reflection of how much we care.
I care a great deal about THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY. I can hardly wait for it to get into your hands. It hits bookstores, and kindles/nooks/ereaders/iPads on August 28th in the US, Canada and the UK. "

Louise Penny Fans - Get Ready.

The countdown begins in earnest now. Less than two months before the launch of THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY. This is the eighth Chief Inspector Gamache crime novel, and it comes out in the US, Britain and Canada on August 28th. THE BEAUTIFUL MYSTERY has been named one of Publishers Weekly top summer reads (before even being published!), and has already earned two starred pre-pub reviews. To read the review in Publishers Weekly and to learn about the audio book, click here.