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A World of Curiosities is Louise Penny's 18th novel in a series featuring the fictional character Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. The 2022 crime mystery book follows the investigation into a series of murders in Quebec, and briefly references the real life 1989 École Polytechnique massacre .
Penny was born in Toronto, Canada, [2] on July 1, 1958. [1] [3] Her mother was an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction, with a particular liking for crime fiction, [4] and Louise grew up reading mystery writers such as Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Michael Innes.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was The Women by Kristin Hannah with 10 weeks at the top of the list, followed by Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros with 6 weeks at the top of the list and It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover with 5 weeks at the top of the list.
The Chief Inspector Armand Gamache book series is written by Louise Penny. Prior to writing full time, she worked for twenty years as a radio journalist and host for CBC Radio in Thunder Bay, Ontario and Winnipeg, Manitoba. [2] Penny originally began writing a historical novel, but changed to mystery writing after finding trouble finishing.
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A Fatal Grace, by Louise Penny, published in Canada as Dead Cold, is the second novel in the Three Pines Mysteries series, which feature Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, published in 2007. In December 2022, the novel was adapted to streaming television at Amazon Prime Video as " White Out ", the two-part series premiere of Three Pines , starring ...
It’s certainly been a good year so far for book lovers. 2024 has seen the much anticipated return of Sally Rooney, whose fourth novel Intermezzo is arguably her best effort to date, as well as ...