Talk to the Frackville Library

This week I’ll talk about the third series I recommended for the Library “Staff Picks.”  The author is Louise Penny and the series is the Three Pines Mysteries featuring Detective Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec.  The stories take place in Three Pines, a rural village in south Montreal, Canada.  Three Pines appears as an idyllic hamlet, rich with vivid details of village life yet, underneath its picturesque exterior, lie danger and murder.  The books are well written and the plots and characters well drawn.  The mysteries are described as “cerebral” with Kirkus Reviews describing Gamache as a “prodigiously complicated and engaging hero, destined to become one of the classic detectives.”