Louise Penny
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Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a balm in Gilead," his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, "to make the wounded whole." While Gamache doesn't talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. Peter,...
2) Still life
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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain...
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No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks have become world famous for their glorious voices, raised in ancient chants whose effect on both singer and listener is...
5) The Hangman
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On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The dead man was a guest at the local Inn and Spa. He might have been looking for peace and quiet, but something else found him. Something horrible. Did the man take his own life? Or was he murdered? Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to the crime scene. As Gamache follows the trail
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Der Alltag kehrt zurück nach Three Pines. Das idyllische Dorf in den kanadischen Wäldern hat die Pandemie weitgehend unbeschadet überstanden. Olivier und Gabri dürfen das Bistro wieder öffnen, und Myrna schließt die Tür zum Buchladen auf. Spuren haben die vergangenen Monate trotzdem hinterlassen: Einer Professorin aus British Columbia ist es gelungen, mit ihren Theorien die Öffentlichkeit zu spalten. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache von der...
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Das Dorf Three Pines liegt so versteckt in den kanadischen Wäldern, dass es auf keiner Landkarte verzeichnet ist. Nur ein Ort ist noch schwieriger zu finden: das Gilbertinerkloster Entre-les-Lupes. Hoch im Norden Québecs, an einem einsamen See, leben die Mönche von selbst angebautem Gemüse und sind vor allem eins: schweigsam und friedfertig. Da ist das Entsetzen groß, als Frère Mathieu, der allseits beliebte Chorleiter, hinterrücks erschlagen...