The Black Wolf by Louise Penny
Remember when the U.S. and Canada were pals? Before “Elbows up”? It was then—before Trump began his spat with his neighbor to the north—that the Canadian author Louise Penny sat down to write The Black Wolf. Even she could not have predicted how prescient her words would be.
The scope of Penny’s Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series has grown over the years, from cozies that traded on the snowy charms of Gamache’s fictional hometown of Three Pines in Québec to thrillers that address more global and existential concerns. Three Pines and its core characters remain, but now they function as a refuge—and comic relief, since Penny is always up for a joke even in moments of peak tension—rather than players in a crime scene. Penny’s last book, The Grey Wolf, ended with Gamache and his team from the Sûreté du Québec stopping a plot to poison Montreal’s water system. The instigator—a man they called “the Black Wolf”—was the deputy prime minister of Canada, now safely in prison. Ça va bien aller.
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