Mysteries set in Quebec
Discover mystery stories set in the beautiful province of Quebec
Books Set in Quebec (28)
It’s a long-shot mission. No one thinks much of the information the Toronto chief of police receives from a mysterious source:…
Tempe is pulled into the investigation when she examines remains from a supposed lightning strike victim in Montreal. A…
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is on break from duty in Three Pines to attend the famed Winter Carnival up north. He has…
The Beautiful Mystery
by Louise Penny
Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache
Police Procedural, Small Town
No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec,…
Unexpectedly called in to the Charlotte PD’s Cold Case Unit, Dr. Temperance Brennan wonders why she’s been asked to meet…
Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier's Bistro―including…
When the body of a missing heiress was discovered, Temperance Brennan and Lieutenant Ryan accompanied the remains from Montreal…
Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged…
When Adele Delaney and her daughter Violet go missing, Jacques Rouleau is called upon to investigate. However, struggling…
Death du Jour
by Kathy Reichs
Part of: Temperance Brennan
Forensic, Police Procedural, Suspense, Women Sleuths
Tempe investigates the charred remains of a nun in Montreal, uncovering links to deaths at a remote Quebec monastery. The…
When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern…
At first enjoying a peaceful retirement, former Quebec homicide detective Armand Gamache reluctantly agrees to help a neighbor…
John Lowery was declared dead in 1968—the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina.…
Bones Are Forever
by Kathy Reichs
Part of: Temperance Brennan
Forensic, Police Procedural, Suspense, Women Sleuths
Tempe begins the case in Montreal before traveling to the Northwest Territories and Alberta to track a missing woman and…
A biker‑gang war erupts in Montreal, pulling Tempe into a violent world of outlaw motorcycle clubs. When her nephew becomes…
How the Light Gets In
by Louise Penny
Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache
Police Procedural, Small Town
In Three Pines Chief Inspector Armand Gamache investigates the disappearance of a woman who was once one of the most famous…
Tempe investigates skeletal remains found in the basement of a Montreal pizza restaurant. The bones point to a decades‑old…
Still life
by Louise Penny
Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache
Detective Fiction, Police Procedural, Rural
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious…
"Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself…
A rule against murder
by Louise Penny
Part of: Chief Inspector Gamache
Police Procedural, Small Town
It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse,…
It's Easter, and on a glorious Spring day in peaceful Three Pines, someone waits for night to fall. When Chief Inspector…
No one liked CC de Poitiers. Not her quiet husband, not her spineless lover, not her pathetic daughter—and certainly none…
Poor Fiona Silk is broke again. Her romance writing career is tanking, and her tiny house in the lovely community of St.…
Residents of a small Quebec village, half French and half English, are feuding as the referendum on separation from Canada…
As if it weren’t bad enough being a failed romance writer with no sex life, poor Fiona Silk has to cope with the spectacularly…
It is Winter Carnival time in beautiful Quebec City. The Screech Owls are in town to join in the winter fun and take part…
Cold Midnight in Vieux Quebec
by Eric Wilson
Part of: Tom & Liz Austen Mysteries
Juvenile, Middle Grade, Political
Tom Austen and Dietmar Oban roam through old Quebec, where leaders of the worlds superpowers meet to get rid of chemical…
Inspector Charlie Salter, a detective with the Toronto Police Department, is assigned to solve the murder of Professor David…