A Trick of the Light

Stellar … With her smart plot and fascinating, nuanced characters, Penny proves again that she is one of our finest writers * People Magazine *
Outstanding … Penny effectively employs the interplay of light and dark … which resonates symbolically in the souls of the characters * Publishers Weekly *
A commanding and artful performance … For connoisseurs of mysteries, success is judged by the genre’s holy trinity: plot, people and prose. When all three attain excellence, a fourth quality shines through: power … what lifts her work to the highest plane is the deep sense of humanity with which she invests her novels, and A TRICK OF THE LIGHT satisfies and surpasses that standard * Richmond Times-Dispatch *
Louise Penny’s writing is intricate, beautiful and compelling. She is an original voice, a distillation of both PD James and Barbara Vine at their peaks and a worthy successor to both * Peter James *

Louise Penny is the number one New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Gamache series, including Still Life, which won the CWA John Creasey Dagger in 2006. Recipient of virtually every existing award for crime fiction, Louise was also granted the Order of Canada in 2014 and received an honorary doctorate of literature from Carleton University and the Ordre Nationale du Québec in 2017. She lives in a small village south of Montreal.

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