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Three Pines on Amazon Prime

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Fans of Canadian crime fiction author Louise Penny are already familiar with Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec. Now viewers can catch up with him and his team in an eight-episode series on Amazon Prime. Gamache has been described as the French Canadian…
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On the Radar: Ready for blast off

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What a week for the crime fiction genre. You could say it’s out of this world. For a start, the astronaut Chris Hadfield is launching his crime fiction debut and it sounds pretty intriguing. It’s a ‘what if…’ conspiracy story set around the abandoned Apollo…
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Five new books by women crime authors

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On the Radar — This is pretty unusual… and we can’t remember having an all-female line-up in our On the Radar weekly news column ever before. But that’s what we’ve got and there’s some great variety this week with highly established authors like Louise Penny…
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Kingdom of the Blind

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Written by Louise Penny — In a rather moving afterword to the book, Louise Penny admits that she thought she was done with her beloved creation, Armand Gamache, former head of the Sûreté du Québec. The author says that for a long time after her…
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It's mighty cold out there

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On the Radar — Winter is here in the northern climes of the Crime Fiction Lover HQ. But just think of how cold it is in Quebec, where Armand Gamache has a baffling case to deal with. Or in Greenland, where the frozen body of a…
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