[This is a repost about Louise Penny’s and her marvelous crime/mystery novels  from 2011. Since then she’s published five more books in the Inspector Gamache/Three Pines series. But I realized I hadn’t gushed on her to all my new followers. *waves madly* She releases her next book in the series at the end of August, 2017.]

(Pics are all from Louise Penny’s website.)

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