Books: Louise Penny crafts a thorough crime scene

Ask anyone who has tried: creating a character who can stay convincing and compelling for a whole novel is hard. Maintaining that achievement with the same character over the course of multiple novels is an altogether taller order. But that’s exactly what Louise Penny has been doing since 2005 with Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, head of the Sûreté du Québec and denizen of the fictional Eastern Townships hamlet of Three Pines. Kingdom of the Blind (Minotaur, 400 pages,