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Louise Penny

Autor(a) de Still Life

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About the Author

Louise Penny was born in Toronto, Canada in 1958. She earned a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Radio and Television) from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University) in 1979. Before she turned to writing mystery novels in 2004, she was a journalist and radio host for the Canadian mostrar mais Broadcasting Corporation in various cities across Canada for 25 years. She writes the Chief Inspector Gamache Novel series. She has won numerous awards including the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards for Still Life and the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel for A Fatal Grace. Louise's title, The Long Way Home, made the Hot Mystery Title's List for Summer 2014. Her titles The Nature of the Beast made The New York Times best seller list in 2015 and A Great Reckoning made The New York Times best seller list in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries

Obras por Louise Penny

Still Life (2005) 6,638 exemplares
A Fatal Grace (2007) 4,004 exemplares
The Cruellest Month (2007) 3,296 exemplares
The Brutal Telling (2009) 3,119 exemplares
A Rule Against Murder (2008) 3,021 exemplares
Bury Your Dead (2010) 2,921 exemplares
The Beautiful Mystery (2012) 2,785 exemplares
A Trick of the Light (2011) 2,611 exemplares
How the Light Gets In (2013) 2,601 exemplares
The Long Way Home (2014) 2,170 exemplares
A Great Reckoning (2016) 2,150 exemplares
Glass Houses (2017) 2,130 exemplares
The Nature of the Beast (2015) 2,080 exemplares
Kingdom of the Blind (2018) 1,916 exemplares
A Better Man (2019) 1,689 exemplares

Associated Works

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) — Introdução, algumas edições9,920 exemplares
Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery [2013 film] (2013) — Original novel — 9 exemplares
Mysterious Writers: The Many Facets of Mystery Writing (2010) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
State of Terror / Never (2022) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1958-07-01
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
Canada
Local de nascimento
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Locais de residência
Québec City, Québec, Canada
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Knowlton, Canada
Educação
Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (BA|Radio and Television)
Ocupações
journalist
radio host
mystery novelist
Agente
Chris, Teresa

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I'd like to tell you a little bit about myself. I was born in Toronto in 1958 and became a journalist and radio host with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, specializing in hard news and current affairs. My first job was in Toronto and then moved to Thunder Bay at the far tip of Lake Superior, in Ontario. It was a great place to learn the art and craft of radio and interviewing, and listening. That was the key. A good interviewer rarely speaks, she listens. Closely and carefully. I think the same is true of writers.

From Thunder Bay I moved to Winnipeg to produce documentaries and host the CBC afternoon show. It was a hugely creative time with amazingly creative people. But I decided I needed to host a morning show, and so accepted a job in Quebec City. The advantage of a morning show is that it has the largest audience, the disadvantage is having to rise at 4am.

But Quebec City offered other advantages that far outweighed the ungodly hour. It's staggeringly beautiful and almost totally French and I wanted to learn. Within weeks I'd called Quebecers 'good pumpkins', ordered flaming mice in a restaurant, for dessert naturally, and asked a taxi driver to 'take me to the war, please.' He turned around and asked 'Which war exactly, Madame?' Fortunately elegant and venerable Quebec City has a very tolerant and gentle nature and simply smiled at me.

From there the job took me to Montreal, where I ended my career on CBC Radio's noon programme.

In my mid-thirties the most remarkable thing happened. I fell in love with Michael, the head of hematology at the Montreal Children's Hospital. He'd go on to hold the first named chair in pediatric hematology in Canada, something I take full credit for, out of his hearing.

It's an amazing and blessed thing to find love later in life. It was my first marriage and his second. He'd lost his first wife to cancer a few years earlier and that had just about killed him. Sad and grieving we met and began a gentle and tentative courtship, both of us slightly fearful, but overcome with the rightness of it. And overcome with gratitude that this should happen to us and deeply grateful to the family and friends who supported us.

Eleven years later we live in an old United Empire Loyalist brick home in the country, surrounded by maple woods and mountains and smelly dogs.

There are times when I'm in tears writing. Not because I'm so moved by my own writing, but out of gratitude that I get to do this. In my life as a journalist I covered deaths and accidents and horrible events, as well as the quieter disasters of despair and poverty. Now, every morning I go to my office, put the coffee on, fire up the computer and visit my imaginary friends, Gamache and Beauvoir and Clara and Peter. What a privilege it is to write. I hope you enjoy reading the books as much as I enjoy writing them.

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A World of Curiosities - Penny
Audio performance by R. Bathurst
5 stars

I’m not a fan of suspense thrillers. I dislike putting that kind of contrived tension into my life. There are only two authors who currently lure me to that dark side; J.K. Rowling as Robert Galbraith and Louise Penny. Neither of these women write cozy mysteries. Their books keep me up at night. And, I’m always waiting anxiously for the next book in the series.

This book was very dark. There should be trigger warnings attached. The plot includes horrific child abuse, two psychopathic killers and a mass shooting. I think I was a bit angry with the author for putting me through so much trauma, even though I was sure it was a 5 star book as soon as I finished it. I needed time to recover. Maybe the book should be marketed with a bunch of sage and sweetgrass for smudging. That ritual, in the final chapter, was as much a comfort to me as it was the characters.

I was impressed with the intricate plotting of this book. Penny’s skilled use of backflash ties Beauvoir and Gamache’s first horrific case to the current day murder investigation. Reaching further back, Penny uses an actual 1989 mass shooting as a pivotal experience for a young Armand Gamache. Again, repercussions of that event are tied to the current day mystery. The discovery of a hidden room in an historic Three Pines building reveals a 17th century grimoire and a bastardized copy of a famous painting. How does she tie all of these elements together so seamlessly? And, every additional detail serves to ratchet up the tension.

Penny’s author's notes (in the text, not included in the audio) are worth reading. She identifies forgiveness as a major theme of this book. True, as far as I can remember, the struggle to forgive permeates all of the books in this series. This book also takes a familiar feminist viewpoint and isn’t shy about taking a stand on gun control.
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corliss12000 | 273 outras críticas | Mar 16, 2024 |
This one, while being somewhat difficult for me to willingly suspend disbelief, almost redeemed the series for me
 
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corliss12000 | 171 outras críticas | Mar 16, 2024 |
I said the last book broke me a bit. This one finished the process. While I can’t believe it took me so long to discover this series, I’m so happy that there are so many for me to binge read!
 
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Estatísticas

Obras
38
Also by
5
Membros
49,573
Popularidade
#312
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
3,096
ISBN
827
Línguas
21
Marcado como favorito
134

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