Louise Penny, writer: ‘Canada is now seen as a country that knows how to stand up for itself’

Louise Penny, writer: ‘Canada is now seen as a country that knows how to stand up for itself’

Knowlton would be one of those towns where, as Frank Sinatra sang, there’s only one perfect crime possible: killing time. That is, of course, if it weren’t for its most famous resident: crime novelist Louise Penny. Her novels, featuring a French-speaking detective named Armand Gamache, always take place in a fictional village called Three Pines, a place beloved by her millions of readers. Penny drew inspiration for Three Pines from Knowlton, a charming town in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, about an hour from Montreal, where she recently welcomed EL PAÍS.

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