There are countries with great tradition in the black genre and others that, even with less quarry, also have their world-renowned first-rate authors. In the case of Canada, Louise penny She is the author in charge of leading the baton in the criminal literature of this North American country. And although its plots are balanced between crimes and mysteries, its component of suspense among the enigmas that usually accompany homicides, provide that taste of the original policeman for deduction. Always relying on prototypical characters of the current black genre.
On the one hand, the absolute fidelity of the author with the inspector Armand Gamache tunes with the current researcher in his most personal aspect, that plot ramification that usually already unfailingly accompanies every black plot.
And it is in him that we find intelligence at the service of any investigation while at times he ends up immersing himself in the mud of his personal circumstances, of his too deep involvement in the case, his iron will with the dignity of the profession that more than once it causes problems ...
On the other hand, crimes point, unlike the hardboiled black genre, to enigmatic circumstances that use death to lead us towards causes much more transcendental than mere animosity.
After every death in Louise Penny's books there is a foundation that guides us towards the unveiled parallel of crime and another superior truth, buried even at the cost of the life of those who may put it at risk or try to get too close.
For almost all your scenery, Louise pulls a making up space called Three Pines, a dark place to the evidence of the recurrent criminal instinct that is manifested in the place. And yet a wonderful setting very close to the border with the United States.
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State terror
Bill Clinton already did it with James Patterson in «The president has disappeared»And this time it was Hilary Clinton who took shelter under the great shadow of Louise Penny to tackle the publication of a fictional novel. And of course, the matter in any case points to fascinating feedback where everyone gets a slice. On the one hand, the former First Lady of the United States manages to join the insured bestseller car while Louse Penny gains credibility to offer a plot of political suspense. The perfect symbiosis ...
State terror follows the trajectory of a fledgling secretary of state who joins the administration of her rival, a president who comes to power after a term that relegated the United States to the background on the international scene.
When a series of terrorist attacks dynamites the established order, this woman will be in charge of bringing together the team to decipher that lethal conspiracy, a plan calculated to the millimeter to take advantage of a weak American government and disconnected from reality. East thriller high voltage reveals political secrets of global reach accessible only to those who know the White House from the inside.
Bury the dead
We go into flour about the comings and goings of the modern Sherlock Holmes which is Inspector Gamache. And we come to one of those vital and professional moments in which weakness can confront our protagonist at the worst moment.
But the evil is what it has, it seems to be able to filter through the interstices of the reality of these types of characters and finally reveals itself in all its harshness. Gamache has been away from the investigation for a few days, traces of a job that in the worst moments can take you away. A good time to develop exciting hobbies.
The Literary and Historical Society becomes a refuge where you can enjoy the aroma of old paper, centenary files and brainy studies on the past. Until one bad day death assaults a man among the old library documents.
From what is known about the victim, a certain Renaud was investigating a historical figure, Samuel de Champlain, who founded Quebec back in the XNUMXth century. The deceased's notes dot Gamache's concerns so closely that he cannot help but get involved in the same search as the deceased himself, his legacy almost weighing more than the clues to his death, ignoring Gamache's particular exceptional situation, with his rest. forced, that his ability to determine the criminal deteriorated can expose him to new risks.
A brutal revelation
A novel that is presented as one of those riddles that leave you thinking spellbound for hours. A setting as fascinating as it is gripping, in the middle of the cold night in a cabin lost in the thousand-year-old forests of Québec.
We know that two were the people who shared a quiet evening between conversations that lead to confessions, legends and finally blood. Old debts of honor of locals? A strange evil possession from the depths of the forest?
At dawn the blood splatters everything and from Montreal Inspector Gamache is required to try to decipher that atrocious death that has moved an entire people given to that routine distilled with the tranquility of mountain villages.
The author masterfully handles those contradictions typical of the bucolic. The scenes that seem to bring us their pure oxygen and the hospitality of their people who allow us to enter their houses also awaken shadows, doubts and vague certainties that any of those glances of the inhabitants of Three Pines barely hides secrets that can culminate in death.
In some remote villages time seems to stop. But sometimes it is just the chicha calm, the prelude to the storms that lurk on the other side of the peaks of its mountains.
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The kingdom of the blind
Nothing better than a good bait to start the game. You don't even need a hook to make the issue more irresistible. Because knowing Armand Gamache we all know that our friend is going to get involved in any mysterious proposal. For that we have already had 13 installments after his fortunes and misfortunes. The thing is that it's not just us who follow him... Characters from that other side of fiction, from its darker spectrum, also approach Armand to try to surprise him, disconcert him and who knows, even win the game and become the the protagonists of this story.
When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farm, the former head of the Sûrete du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Surprised but curious, Gamache accepts and soon discovers that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the Three Pines bookseller, and a young builder.
None of the three knew the old woman. Intrigued, they accept her role and discover clauses so unusual that they doubt the mental health of the deceased. Unless, on the contrary, she was especially lucid and she was aware of the danger that loomed over her heirs.
A beautiful mystery
With its reminiscences to «The Name of the Rose«, In whose powerful imaginary any story that happens inside a convent is usually reflected, the author offers us a great mystery novel.
The voices of the monks of the Canadian monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups seem to retain perpetual echoes within its walls. Or so the inspectors Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir note, in charge of undoing the skein that began with the death of Brother Mathieu.
Both researchers are clear that the darkest instincts of the human being are not alien to anyone, not even to those men devoted to spiritual recollection. Locked up and away from the world, the monks occupy their time in subsistence, in prayers and in those songs called the beautiful mystery.
But it has been blown up, culminating in the brutal blow to the skull of the deceased brother. In a completely new aspect for Gamache, between dark corridors and limited to interact openly with the monks, our old friend the inspector will have to reinvent himself in order to finish deducing the reasons for such an execution, before the accumulated tension jumps through the air towards a it derives from an occupation of that holy place by the devil.
a deadly offense
Every investigator of suspense series always has his fatal moment in which the matter turns against him. And then the plot takes on a double aspect. On the one hand, it is time to flee…, with everything that the protagonist has learned from his criminals whom he hunted down. On the other hand, it remains to find out with hardly any resources what has happened to find yourself in that situation...
Former Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has spent his entire career hunting down assassins and fighting corruption. Now, as the new commander of the Sûreté academy, he has the opportunity to combat the corruption and brutality that has spread like a plague through this police force. However, after finding a former colleague and professor at the academy murdered, along with a mysterious map of Three Pines, Gamache is faced with an even tougher task.
When suspicion falls on Gamache himself and his possible involvement in the crime, the frantic search for answers leads the investigation to the town of Three Pines, where a series of devastating secrets is about to be revealed...
Glass houses
The thirteenth installment of the Inspector Armand Gamache series has that I don't know what to challenge a number so linked to bad luck in the western part of the world. Although, seen in another way, we precisely address a plot loaded with misfortune from the most disturbing appearance. Come and enjoy one of the most chilling cases for good old Gamache...
When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, the first thing Armand Gamache and the rest of the neighbors feel is curiosity. Then suspicious. The newly appointed commissioner of the Sûreté de Québec suspects that the creature has deep roots and dark intentions. However, he is confident that his growing fears will not come true. A few days later, the sad figure has vanished and a corpse is found in the church...
Alternating the rapid exchanges of a courtroom with the events that have unfolded in Three Pines, Louise Penny weaves in Houses of Glass a brilliant game of ellipses, chiaroscuro and a story of considerable psychological depth. A great work of a great creator.
