Showing posts with label Louise Penny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Louise Penny. Show all posts

Thursday, October 04, 2012

From Lynley to Gamache

Very British thesp Nathaniel Parker, probably best known for playing Elizabeth George's Inspector Lynley, has been cast as Quebecois Chief Inspector Armand Gamache in Still Life, based on Louise Penny's novel. From her website:

STILL LIFE (PDM Entertainment): Based on the award-winning novels by international best-selling author Louise Penny, comes an event TV movie about murder in a small town. The village of Three Pines, Quebec may seem tranquil, but all is not as it appears. In this psychological thriller that combines Hitchcock with Christie, death comes to this peaceful Eden, and brings with it Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, the head of Homicide for the Surete du Quebec. Here he discovers that nature, both human and otherwise, is capable of great beauty, and great cruelty. Beneath the exterior of the pretty little village, dark secrets lie hidden. Behind cheerful smiles, hurtful thoughts swirl. As he digs deeper, Chief Inspector Gamache finds old sins, buried alive. Rancid and stinking. And now, one of those secrets has surfaced, and created a corpse. C.I. Gamache must follow the trail of smiles and lies, of courtesy and cruelty. To the killer.

From her Facebook page:
Stanbridge East, in Quebec's Eastern Townships is standing in for Three Pines

Nathaniel Parker has recently been in Merlin:


and will appear next Friday (12th) in a new BBC Comedy, Me and Mrs Jones:

Sunday, November 30, 2008

New Reviews: Mike Ripley's crime file, crime express novellas 4 & 5, Brownley, Holt

The following reviews have been added to the review archive over on the main Euro Crime website:
New Reviews:

In Mike Ripley's latest Crime File he reviews The Maze of Cadiz by Aly Monroe, Portobello by Ruth Rendell and The Murder Stone by Louise Penny;

I review the latest in the Crime Express novella series: The Okinawa Dragon by Nicola Monaghan and The Quarry by Clare Littleford;

Michelle Peckham reviews The Sins of the Children by James Brownley a series which features "Alison Glasby, first female crime correspondent for the Sunday Herald in London"

and Maxine Clarke recommends Norwegian author Anne Holt's The Final Murder (US: What Never Happens).
Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found here.