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Review of ‘Kingdom of the Blind’

Top Pick in Mystery, December 2018

Louise Penny’s novels are unique for how seamlessly they straddle the line between charming small-town mysteries and big-city police procedurals. As Kingdom of the Blind opens, protagonist Armand Gamache, former head of the Sûreté du Québec, receives a strange invitation to an abandoned farmhouse, and an even stranger request to…

Featuring ‘Kingdom of the Blind’

Whodunit: Big-name suspense to end a year of thrills

December isn’t typically the strongest of months for new book releases, but this year, what is lacking in quantity is more than made up for in quality, with books from four of the finest contemporary suspense writers from North America, Europe and Japan.


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