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- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
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...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
There is more to solving a crime than following the clues. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache’s world of facts and feelings. As Quebec City shivers in the grip of winter, its ancient stone walls cracking in the cold, Chief...
- Location(s): Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary, looking back
A searing novel about memory, abandonment, and betrayal from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks At the centre of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled...
- Location(s): Sydney, Montreal
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson’s brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she began receiving scattered chapters in the mail from a mysterious guidebook, whose anonymous authors promised...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 17th century
The illegitimate daughter of a courtesan, Genevieve Lalande struggles to survive on the dangerous streets of Louis XIV’s Paris. Desperate for a new life, she trades identities with a woman chosen to be a mail-order bride… and is soon...
- Location(s): Montreal
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Horror, Suspense
- Era(s): 1990's
Organized crime. An undercover police officer. A murder. An accidental witness. These are the elements of a unique story about love, loss, adventure, hope, and terror: Heaven’s Door, a Novel by J. Kilburn. Part noir crime novel, part historical...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
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 Cohen Christmas is approaching, and...
- Location(s): Kamouraska
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid-19th century
Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Quebec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d’Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
There is more to solving a crime than following the clues. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache’s world of facts and feelings. When Armand Gamache receives a letter inviting him to an abandoned farmhouse outside of Three Pines, the former...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Magical Realism
- Era(s): 1980s
Nadia Comaneci’s gold-medal performance at the Olympic Games in Montreal is the starting point for a whole new generation. Eric Dupont watches the performance on TV, mesmerized. The son of a police officer (Henry VIII) and a professional cook—as...
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