Louise Penny

CC de Poitiers managed to alienate everyone in the hamlet of Three Pines, right up to the moment she died. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache begins his investigation, it seems like an impossible murder: CC was electrocuted on a frozen lake, in front of the entire town, during the annual curling tournament. With compassion and courage, Gamache digs beneath the idyllic surface of village life to find long buried secrets, while his own enemies threaten to bring something even more chilling than the bitter winter winds to Three Pines.

Winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec 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 that Jane Neal died at the hands of someone much more sinister than a careless bowhunter. "Still Life" introduces not only an engaging series hero in Inspector Gamache, who commands his forces--and this series--with integrity and quiet courage, but also a winning and talented new writer of traditional mysteries in the person of Louise Penny.

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 of clues, he opens a door into the past. And he learns the true reason why the man came to Three Pines. This book is a short and easy read for people on the go.

Roman "Samyj zhestokij mesjats" prodolzhaet seriju rassledovanij blistatelnogo starshego inspektora Armana Gamasha - novogo personazha, sozdannogo perom Luizy Penni, edinstvennogo v mire pjatikratnogo laureata premii Agaty Kristi. "Samyj zhestokij mesjats" - tak skazal poet ob aprele. I chtoby podderzhat svoju reputatsiju, etot mesjats podvergaet starshego inspektora Armana Gamasha surovomu ispytaniju. Vmeste so svoej komandoj Gamash vnov priezzhaet v derevnju Tri Sosny, chtoby rassledovat zagadochnuju smert nekoj Madlen Farvo. Vo vremja spiriticheskogo seansa, kotoryj mestnye zhiteli provodili v starom zabroshennom dome, polzujuschemsja durnoj slavoj, Madlen vnezapno umiraet. Vse schitajut, chto ona prosto ispugalas do smerti, ved obschenie s mirom prizrakov nikomu ne prokhodit darom. Odnako Gamash podozrevaet, chto delo gorazdo slozhnee, chem kazhetsja na pervyj vzgljad. Nachav rassledovanie, on neozhidanno stanovitsja obektom jarostnykh napadok v presse, svjazannykh s odnim iz ego proshlykh del. Teper emu nuzhno ne tolko...

Roman "Kamennyj ubijtsa" sozdan v luchshikh traditsijakh anglijskogo germetichnogo detektiva i prodolzhaet seriju rassledovanij starshego inspektora Armana Gamasha - novogo personazha, sozdannogo perom Luizy Penni, edinstvennogo v mire pjatikratnogo laureata premii Agaty Kristi. Kazhdyj god v razgar leta Arman Gamash s zhenoj Rejn-Mari priezzhajut v byvshuju okhotnichju usadbu, pritaivshujusja sredi dikikh kanadskikh lesov, chtoby otprazdnovat godovschinu svadby. V etom elitnom otele vse raspolagaet k otdykhu, odnako otdokhnut, kak vsegda, ne udaetsja: u suprugov Gamash ochen bespokojnye sosedi - respektabelnoe semejstvo Finni-Morrou. Pokhozhe, etikh bogatykh postojaltsev svjazyvajut ne tolko dengi, no i zastarelaja vzaimnaja nenavist, zameshannaja na tajnakh proshlogo. Ne ona li privela k gibeli Dzhulii, docheri Charlza Morrou, kotoruju vo vremja strashnoj grozy razdavil pamjatnik ee sobstvennogo ottsa? Neschastnyj sluchaj ili prestuplenie? Esli eto ubijstvo, to ego sovershil kto-to iz prisutstvujuschikh, - takoj zheleznyj vyvod delaet Arman Gamash, odnako sledstvie zakhodit v tupik. Jasno odno: proizoshlo nechto protivoestestvennoe...