The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny

November 17, 2013

I saved this book—number eight in Louise Penny’s “Inspector Gamache” mystery series—to read while on vacation in Québec. Although I …

Dear Life by Alice Munro

November 11, 2013

A week after the announcement that Alice Munro had won the Nobel Prize for her beautiful, evocative short stories, I …

July 1, 2013

A Trick of the Light opens with a vernissage, the preview of an art exhibition before its formal opening. Patient, …

June 5, 2013

Je me souviens. Perhaps you’ve seen it on a Quebec license plate: I remember. I’d always thought of it as …

May 13, 2013

A Fatal Grace is the second “Three Pines” mystery by Louise Penny—I somehow missed it as I progressed through the …

January 14, 2013

My first books of the new year are detective novels in a series by Canadian writer Louise Penny. Some fictional …