內容簡介:A New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller books for 2011?"Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie [but] it sells her short. Her characters are too rich, her grasp of nuance and human psychology too firm...." --Booklist (starred review)"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 Mus?e in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the S–ret? du Qu?bec, is called to the tiny Quebec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light.? Where nothing is as it seems.? Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart.? And even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to Gamache and his team if what they've found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light.??
作者簡介:Louise Penny, author of the New York Times bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache novels, worked as an award-winning journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation before leaving to write crime fiction. Her first?mystery, Still Life, was the winner of?the?New Blood Dagger and the Arthur Ellis,?Barry,?Anthony, and?Dilys Awards; and was also named one of the five Mystery/Crime Novels of the Decade by Deadly Pleasures magazine. Louise went on to become the first writer ever to win the Agatha Award for Best Novel four times, as well as an Anthony Award for The Brutal Telling and the Dilys, Arthur Ellis, Macavity, and Anthony?Awards for Bury Your Dead. Her novels?are bestsellers in the United States and Great Britain and have been translated into twenty-three?languages. She lives with her husband, Michael, in a small village south of Montréal.