International phenomenon Louise Penny, winner of the CWA First Novel Dagger and a mainstay of the New York Times bestseller list, makes her Sphere debut with an ingenious mystery sure to delight readers of P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, and Alexander McCall Smith.
As ancient Quebec City shivers in the grip of winter, Armand Gamache, renowned chief of the Quebec police force, investigates a brutal murder committed in the Literary & Historical Society, a library owned by the city's English residents.
Louise Penny is the number one New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Gamache series, including Still Life, which won the CWA John Creasey Dagger in 2006. Recipient of virtually every existing award for crime fiction, Louise was also granted the Order of Canada in 2014 and received an honorary doctorate of literature from Carleton University and the Ordre Nationale du QuA bec in 2017. She lives in a small village south of Montreal.