A New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011A Publishers Weekly Best MysteryThriller books for 2011Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie but it sells her short. Her characters are too rich, her grasp of nuance and human psychology too firm.... --Booklist starred reviewHearts 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 of Clara Morrows garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Claras solo show at the famed Musée in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, is called to the tiny Quebec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light.
