march, 2019

2019mon04mar7:30 pm9:00 pmLouise Penny7:30 pm - 9:00 pm John H. Mulroy Civic Center, 421 Montgomery St, Syracuse, NY 13202 Event Organized By: The Friends of the Central Library

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Louise Penny is the #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of 14 Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (seven times), and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel.

Before she began writing, Louise embarked on an 18-year career as a radio host and journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, working in Toronto, Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, and Quebec City. She entered her first novel, Still Life, in the “Debut Dagger” competition in the United Kingdom and placed in second. The novel won other awards, including the “New Blood” Dagger award in the United Kingdom, the Arthur Ellis Award in Canada for best first crime novel, and the Barry Award for Best First Novel in the United States. The book was eventually adapted into a film and aired on CBC TV in 2013

Her novels follow Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec, who was created in the image of several people Louise meet throughout her life, as he digs beneath the idyllic surface of village life in Three Pines, finds long buried secrets, and faces a few of his own ghosts. The novels in the series are Still Life, A Fatal Grace/Dead Cold, The Cruelest Month, A Rule Against Murder/The Murder Stone, The Brutal Telling, Bury Your Dead, A Trick of the Light, The Beautiful Mystery, How the Light Gets In, The Long Way Home, The Nature of the Beast,  A Great Reckoning, Glass Houses, and the recently published Kingdom of the Blind. She lives in a small village south of Montréal.

“My books are about terror. That brooding terror curled deep down inside us. But more than that, more than murder, more than all the rancid emotions and actions, my books are about goodness. And kindness. About choices. About friendship and belonging. And love. Enduring love.”

“If you take only one thing away from any of my books I’d like it to be this: Goodness exists.” —Louise Penny

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Time

(Monday) 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Location

John H. Mulroy Civic Center

421 Montgomery St, Syracuse, NY 13202

Organizer

The Friends of the Central Library

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