Tag: Louise Penny
-
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…
-
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…
-
Louise Penny’s The Cruellest Month: Literary Allusions, Easter, and the Near Enemy
“Nature’s in turmoil. Anything can happen.” Ruth Zardo, The Cruellest Month “Whan that Aprill with his shoures sooteThe droghte of March hath perced to the roote. . . .” Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales Penny borrows the opening line of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as the title of her third Three…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 