Dead Cold [Import] [Paperback]

Louise Penny (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing; First Thus edition (2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0755328930
• ISBN-13: 978-0755328932
• Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 1 x 7.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (69 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #723,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

LOUISE PENNY is an award-winning journalist who worked for many years for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She lives in a small village south of Montréal where she writes, skis, and volunteers. Her bestselling first mystery, Still Life, was the winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards; and her second, A Fatal Grace, won the Agatha Award for Best Novel in 2008. Visit her website at www.louisepenny.com.

Customer Reviews

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126 of 127 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Be careful when ordering., July 9, 2007

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Late Night Reader (Pensacola, FL United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dead Cold (Paperback)

Readers of these excellent books need to be aware that Dead Cold and

A Fatal Grace are the same book - the first one is the British title

and the second the American title - otherwise, no difference! I made

the mistake of ordering them both.... it happens sometimes.

64 of 67 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent traditional mystery, but more, December 6, 2006

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L. J. Roberts (Oakland, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Cold : Winter Can Be Murder (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.

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.

40 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful New Series, May 15, 2007

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Tom S. "filmfan3" (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Fatal Grace (Three Pines Mysteries, No. 2) (Hardcover)

This is the second novel in my favorite new mystery series, and it's every bit as good as the first one. STILL LIFE introduced Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sureté de Québec, and he solved a murder in the colorful village of Three Pines, just a few miles north of the U.S. border. In this new mystery, he's back in Three Pines at Christmastime, looking for another murderer among the eccentric local population.

Every mystery series needs a good detective and a good setting, and Penny is better than most at evoking her small Canadian town and the vivid people in it. And Gamache is a memorable creation--I really hope we'll be seeing a lot more of him in the years ahead. Not since Agatha Christie's Marple and Poirot have I found such a likable crimesolver. If you enjoy good writing, fair clues and surprising solutions, you're going to love this series. Highly recommended.