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Tag: Louise Penny

  • Louise Penny’s Bury Your Dead Included on Time’s Top 100 Mystery and Thrillers List

    In their recent issue, also available online, Time Magazine offers top-100 list, put together by some of the biggest names in contemporary crime fiction, alongside several intriguing mystery-themed articles, including Rachel Howzell Hall’s “The Rich, Underappreciated History of Mystery Writers of Color.“ This Time feature issue was brought to my attention by no less than…

  • Louise Penny: Let’s Talk about Goodness

    Image of Brome Lake Books’s “Goodness Exists” and Other Three Pines Mugs (order here) In a new video of Louise Penny discussing The Grey Wolf, she talks about goodness. About kindness. Penny suggests that the reason she hasn’t tired of Gamache (and she notes the Christie example, to my delight) is that she created a…

  • The New Louise Penny Novel . . . and the Other New Louise Penny Novel

    I’m reading The Last Mandarin (with thanks to NetGalley and the novel’s publisher), a collaboration by two terrific authors: Louise Penny, of course, and Mellissa Fung, a Canadian journalist and former foreign correspondent, and the author of the gripping memoir Under an Afghan Sky. Fung’s first book describes how, in 2008, she was kidnapped in…