Chief Inspector Gamache Series

The series, also known as the Three Pines Mysteries, follows Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec as he investigates murders in the rural, snow-covered village of Three Pines, south of Montréal.

Books in this Series (11)

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Still life

Book #1 in series

Louise Penny

Quebec, Canada

Detective Fiction, Mystery

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…

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A fatal grace

Book #2 in series

Louise Penny

Quebec, Canada

Mystery, Police Procedural

No one liked CC de Poitiers. Not her quiet husband, not her spineless lover, not her pathetic daughter—and certainly none of the residents of Three Pines. CC de Poitiers managed to alienate everyone, right up until the moment of her death. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, of the Sûreté du Québec, is called to investigate, he quickly realizes he's…

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The Cruellest Month

Book #3 in series

Louise Penny

Quebec, Canada

Mystery, Police Procedural

It's Easter, and on a glorious Spring day in peaceful Three Pines, someone waits for night to fall. When Chief Inspector Gamache of the Surete du Quebec arrives the next morning, he faces an unusual crime scene. A seance in an old abandoned house has gone horrifically wrong and someone has been frightened to death. In idyllic Three Pines, terrible…

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A rule against murder

Book #4 in series

Louise Penny

Quebec, Canada

Mystery, Police Procedural

t is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But they're not alone. The Finney family—rich, cultured, and respectable—has also arrived for a celebration of their own. The beautiful Manoir Bellechasse…

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The Brutal Telling

Book #5 in series

Louise Penny

Quebec, Canada

Mystery, Police Procedural

Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier's Bistro―including a stranger whose murdered body is found on the floor. When Chief Inspector Gamache is called to investigate, he is dismayed to discover that Olivier's story is full of holes. Why are his fingerprints all over the cabin that's…

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Bury Your Dead

Book #6 in series

Louise Penny

Quebec, Canada

Mystery, Police Procedural

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is on break from duty in Three Pines to attend the famed Winter Carnival up north. He has arrived in this beautiful, freezing city not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. Still, violent death is inescapable—even here, in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society,…

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A trick of the light

Book #7 in series

Louise Penny

Quebec, Canada

Mystery, Police Procedural

"Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara's solo show at the famed Musée in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the…

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The Beautiful Mystery

Book #8 in series

Louise Penny

Quebec, Canada

Mystery, Police Procedural

No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing. Ironically, for a community that has taken a vow of silence, the monks have become world-famous…

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How the Light Gets In

Book #9 in series

Louise Penny

Quebec, Canada

Mystery, Police Procedural

In Three Pines Chief Inspector Armand Gamache investigates the disappearance of a woman who was once one of the most famous people in the world and now goes unrecognized by virtually everyone except the mad, brilliant poet Ruth Zardo.

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The long way home

Book #10 in series

Louise Penny

Quebec, Canada

Mystery, Police Procedural

At first enjoying a peaceful retirement, former Quebec homicide detective Armand Gamache reluctantly agrees to help a neighbor search for her missing estranged husband and teams up with two former colleagues on a search that reveals the workings of a psychologically damaged mind.

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Nature Of The Beast

Book #11 in series

Louise Penny

Quebec, Canada

Mystery, Police Procedural

Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village. But when…