Penny, Louise – DEAD COLD

[LJ Roberts]

DEAD COLD (Police Procedural-Canada-Cont) – Ex Penny, Louise – 2^nd in series
Headline, 2006- UK Hardcover

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his officers have been called back to the town of Three Pines. CC de Poitiers, an extremely unpleasant woman, has been murdered in public at the height of a curling match. Figuring out how she was killed is as much a mystery as uncovering who killed her.

2006 Top Read - Penny’s books are deceptive. On one hand, they seem a simple traditional mystery, set in a small town with lots of interesting, quirky characters, lots of suspects from which to choose and good twists and turns along the way. Penny does do dialogue well and her sense of place is evocative. But then there a second layer, hard to describe, but one I find makes me occasionally stop and think while reading and stays with me long after I’ve closed the book. Penny is one of those I can be being on my very short list of authors to re-read. Highly recommended.