Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Louise Penny’s The Grey Wolf
I’m re-reading Penny’s most recent novel, in anticipation of next fall’s companion volume, The Black Wolf. On Instagram this morning, Penny shared the advance copy (very advance: publication is still six months out). And tickets are now on sale for fall book events in Toronto and Vancouver; the Ottawa book launch at the National Arts…
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Residential Schools and the Three Pines Adaptation of Louise Penny’s The Cruellest Month
This is not a loose adaptation: it’s more of an interpretation of the themes of Louise Penny’s fiction through a very different story that shares the same title. In putting together the first (and only) season of Three Pines, the producers made some interesting and important choices. One of the key ones was to capture…
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Adapting Canadian Crime Fiction: L.R. Wright’s Murder in a Small Town, and Adaptations of Louise Penny’s Gamache/Three Pines Books
A second season of Fox’s Murder in a Small Town has started shooting on the Sunshine Coast, and locals are happy. The production has injected $4 million into the area’s economy, and while the series leads are not all from B.C., they are Canadian. RCMP Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg is played by Rossif Sutherland, previously…
