Tag: three-pines
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Louise Penny’s Still Life: A Milestone Anniversary
September 30th will be the 20th anniversary of Penny’s first novel, Still Life. She famously couldn’t find a publisher until she placed second in what was then called the Debut Dagger contest for unpublished mystery writers, a UK-based prize now termed the Emerging Author Dagger. (The image above is AI-generated with the prompt “Louise Penny…
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Three Pines: Adapting Louise Penny’s Gamache Novels
Adaptations of Canadian mystery fiction are sometimes ephemeral or short-lived. I’ve been unable to track down copies of the series of TV films based on Gail Bowen’s Joanne Kilbourn novels, although it sounds like there were significant changes. For instance, IMDB describes the character in The Wandering Soul Murders–one of Bowen’s grimmest novels, featuring a…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 