Louise Penny is the internationally bestselling author of the multi-award-winning crime series featuring Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec.
Louise is the winner of the CWA New Blood Dagger for Crime Fiction, the CWC Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel and, in the US, the Anthony Award for Best First Novel.
Louise's two novels Still Life and Dead Cold have been published to much acclaim:
'Delightfully unfashionable: there's no gory serial killing and it's about ordinary people' Sunday Telegraph
'I loved it...a crime novel written with such skill and integrity, strong on character and atmosphere… I couldn’t put it down’ Margaret Yorke
'A delight for all of us who love detective fiction’ Reginald Hill
‘A splendid motive for murder, an attractive detective and some terrific atmosphere… An impressive debut novel...promising much enjoyment to come’ The Times
Louise Penny's brilliant new novel THE MURDER STONE is out in October 2008
