Even casual readers know that a great mystery can make for the perfect literary escape. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of amazing authors in the genre—including Louise Penny. Over the past ...

By Hilary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny Simon & Schuster/St. Martin's Press 512 pages We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site.

In a plot twist that presages reality, The Black Wolf describes an attempt to make Canada the 51st state. Penny wrote the ...

Penny also says she won't take the book on a U.S. tour, a first for the novelist who has won numerous awards on both sides of the border and in 2021 cowrote a book with former secretary of state ...

Meetings •NOW Book Group will next meet at 5 p.m. July 21 in TidePool Book Shop, 372 Chandler St., Worcester.

End-of-summer whodunits bring chills and thrills. By Sarah Weinman Crime novels incorporating the pandemic into their plots are starting to appear. The verdicts vary, but I admired Louise Penny ...

They decided on nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists as the premise. They wrote the book together from their respective homes – Penny in Quebec and Clinton in Chappaqua, N.Y.

In solidarity with her fellow Canadians, Penny said for the first time in 20 years, she would not do in-person events in the U.S. tied to the latest Gamache novel, The Black Wolf, due out on Oct. 28.

The adaptation for television depicts the mistreatment of First Nations people in Canada and has drawn praise for its unflinching realism. By Dan Bilefsky Murder is as ubiquitous in “Three Pines ...