We can't say she is from Thunder Bay, alas, but she did live here for several years. Many people may remember Louise Penny as a CBC announcer at our local CBQ. Louise's new mystery, A Rule Against Murder (called The Murder Stone in Canada) is the fourth in her Chief Inspector Gamache series. The others are The Cruelest Month, Dead Cold and Still Life. Last year, I read Dead Cold and it was a grand read in the tradition mystery style which I enjoy very much,
The New York Times review:
Louise Penny applies her magic touch to A RULE AGAINST MURDER (Minotaur, $24.95), giving the village mystery an elegance and depth not often seen in this traditional genre. Although Penny is no slouch at constructing a whodunit puzzle, her great skill is her ability to create a charming mise-en-scène and inhabit it with complex characters.
There’s something otherworldly and altogether enchanting about the Manoir Bellechasse, the magnificent lodge in the Canadian wilderness where Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, the head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, has taken his wife for their 35th wedding anniversary. Not only does the auberge offer grand views and the order and calm of old-world service, but it also observes a no-kill policy, with the proprietors feeding wild animals in winter and forbidding guests to hunt or fish.
Someone obviously failed to explain that rule to the cultured but quarrelsome family holding a reunion to unveil a statue of their late patriarch, who makes his feelings felt by toppling down on one of his own. As Gamache observes, “things were not as they seemed,” not even in a paradise like Bellechasse. And never in a Louise Penny mystery.
Local fans and all writers should check out Penny's web site at www.louisepenny.com. This is a model author's site with info, pictures, hints to writers etc.
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