59 pages • 1 hour read
Louise PennyA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache series burst onto the mystery scene in 2005 with her debut novel, Still Life. In it, she introduces two iconic features of the series: Armand Gamache and the village of Three Pines. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is, in some ways, a classic detective in the style of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot.
With Three Pines, Penny has created a village that has become a favorite among her readers. The village is idyllic and isolated from the world, seeming to exist outside of normal space and time. In A Rule Against Murder, even though the main action of the novel doesn’t take place in Three Pines, Penny takes the reader there with a mailman who sets the scene: “It always amused him to imagine that Three Pines, nestled among the mountains and surrounded by Canadian forest, was disconnected from the outside world. It certainly felt that way. It was a relief” (5). Throughout the series, whenever a character visits Three Pines for the first time, they respond with an immediate sense of well-being and belonging. Many books in the series take place in Three Pines, and Gamache always returns eagerly, considering the village a home away from his home in urban Montreal.
By Louise Penny
A Fatal Grace
Louise Penny
A Great Reckoning
Louise Penny
All the Devils are Here
Louise Penny
A World of Curiosities
Louise Penny
Bury Your Dead
Louise Penny
How the Light Gets In
Louise Penny
State of Terror
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Louise Penny
Still Life
Louise Penny
The Beautiful Mystery
Louise Penny
The Brutal Telling
Louise Penny
The Cruelest Month
Louise Penny
The Long Way Home
Louise Penny
The Nature of the Beast
Louise Penny