Chief Inspector Gamache

On the data. Two things. Read them in order, and mean it. A lot of long detective series can be read in any order because each book is a self contained case. This one cannot. Characters' jobs, marriages, betrayals and deaths carry from book to book, an internal police corruption plot runs across roughly five novels, and there are two books, The Beautiful Mystery and How the Light Gets In, that are effectively a two parter with a cliffhanger between them. Starting in the middle means being spoiled on things that took ten books to set up. The television series does not follow the books. Three Pines takes four novels, adapts each across two episodes, and runs an additional storyline about missing and murdered Indigenous women in Quebec that Louise Penny supported and that is not in the books. It was well received and Prime Video did not renew it. The village of Three Pines is fictional and deliberately hard to find, which is a running joke in the books. The real landscape it is based on is the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The novels are still being written, roughly one a year.

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