At birth, Nouschka forms a bond with her twin that can never be broken. At six, she’s the child star daughter of Quebec’s most famous musician. At sixteen, she’s a high-school dropout kicking up with her beloved brother. At...

As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village and starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of a woman dredges up in a fisherman’s nets. Not just any woman, though: Marie Garant, an elusive,...

There’s only one thing more deadly than the storm… Fisheries officer Simone Lord is transferred to Quebec’s remote Magdalen Islands for the winter, and at the last minute ordered to go aboard a trawler braving a winter storm for...

In Jerusalem’s Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon’s windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan a young...

Gory detail, and compelling forensic expertise are a marker of this book. In Quebec a serial killer targets women, and severed remains are left in bags close to their bodies. Dr Temperance Brennan assists the police can tell from...

Previously published as “Boundary” in hardback Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction 2014 Winner of the Prix des Lecteurs for Best French Crime Novel at the Quais du Polar 2017 Winner of the Prix du Conseil des...

‘One of the greatest crime writers of our times’ DENISE MINA There is more to solving a crime than following the clues. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache’s world of facts and feelings. The air is unbearably tense as Armand...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerful truth in her latest spellbinding novel. When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro...

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, Louise Penny’s wise and engaging ’21st-century version of Hercule Poirot’ (“Publishers Weekly”, starred review), is looking forward to celebrating his wedding anniversary at the remote, luxurious Manoir Bellechasse. The only other guests are members of...

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,...