Chief Inspector Gamache series
About this book series
This is a book series by Louise Penny. It has 21 books. The first book was published in 2008.
All books of Chief Inspector Gamache series in order
- 1Still Life
'Three Pines is made up of good people, but one of us is festering.' The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and ...
September 30, 2025 - 2A Fatal Grace
From the author of STILL LIFE comes the second novel featuring the irresistible Chief Inspector Gamache...The falling snow brings a hush to Three Pines -- until a scream pierces ...
August 1, 2012 - 3The Cruellest Month
Welcome to Three Pines, where the cruelest month is about to deliver on its threat. It's spring in the tiny, forgotten village; buds are on the trees and the first flowers ...
March 4, 2008 - 4A Rule Against Murder
A brilliant, big, old-fashioned drawing-room mystery with a denouement worthy of Agatha Christie, from the international bestseller. Wealthy, cultured and respectable, the ...
July 1, 2009 - 5The Brutal Telling
Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. As families prepare to head back to the city and children say goodbye to summer, a stranger ...
March 3, 2010 - 6Bury Your Dead
It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to celebrate but to recover from an investigation ...
October 1, 2010 - 6.5The Hangman
On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The dead man ...
September 1, 2010 - 7A Trick of the Light
'Hearts are broken,' Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. 'Sweet relationships are dead.' But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs ...
August 30, 2011 - 8The Beautiful Mystery
The brilliant new novel in the New York Times bestselling series by one of the most acclaimed crime writers of our time No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of ...
September 5, 2012 - 9How the Light Gets InSeptember 1, 2013
- 10The Long Way Home
There is more to solving a crime than following the clues. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings. Clara Morrow's husband is missing. When he ...
August 26, 2014 - 11The Nature of the Beast
Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. His boundless sense of adventure and vivid imagination mean he has a tendency to concoct stories so ...
August 25, 2015 - 12A Great Reckoning
#1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerful truth in her latest spellbinding novel.
August 30, 2016 - 13Glass Houses
One cold November day, a mysterious figure appears on the village green in Three Pines, causing unease, alarm and confusion among everyone who sees it. Chief Superintendent, ...
August 29, 2017 - 14Kingdom of the Blind
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller A December 2018 Indie Next Pick One of Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2018 Picks BookPage Best of the Year 2018 A LibraryReads Pick for ...
November 27, 2018 - 15A Better Man
Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet Chief Inspector Armand Gamache as he returns to the Sûreté du Québec in the ...
August 27, 2019 - 16All the Devils Are Here
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller PARADE MAGAZINE - ONE OF FALL'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS AARP'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL CRIMEREADS - ONE OF THE BEST TRADITIONAL ...
September 1, 2020 - 17The Madness of Crowds
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller AARP The Magazine - Recommended Summer Reading CNN - A Most Anticipated Book of August Bustle - A Most Anticipated Book of ...
August 24, 2021 - 18A World of Curiosities
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Agatha Award Winner for Best Contemporary Novel Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times ...
November 29, 2022 - 19The Grey Wolf
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestseller The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm ...
October 29, 2024 - 20The Black Wolf
The 20th mystery in the #1 New York Times bestselling Armand Gamache series. Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago, Chief ...
October 28, 2025