THE NATURE OF THE BEAST by Louise Penny

Louise Penny spoke about her book, The Nature of the Beast, at Politics & Prose on Sunday, August 30, 2015.

Louise Penny has won five Agatha Awards and a New Blood Dagger from the Crime Writers’ Association for her ingenious use of such classic whodunit features as the carefully deployed red herring, the large roster of plausible suspects, and unforeseen plot twists. In The Nature of the Beast, Penny sends Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, head of homicide in the Sûreté du Québec, and veteran of ten previous cases, to track down a boy gone missing from his own village. Known for embellishing the truth, the boy has a reputation for crying wolf—but in this case his disappearance is all too real.