{"id":5598,"date":"2010-02-22T06:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2010-02-04T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:21:43","slug":"the-armchair-traveler-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-armchair-traveler-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"The Armchair Traveler &#8211; Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Quebec1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5698\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Quebec1.jpg?resize=300%2C223&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a> Louise Penny\u00a0, a former\u00a0 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reporter,\u00a0steeps her mysteries in the French culture of Quebec.\u00a0Her\u00a0Chief Inspector Gamache\u00a0\u00a0series has\u00a0been <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Quebec.jpg\"><\/a>compared to Agatha Christie (a small village setting and large cast of characters and\u00a0 surprise endings)\u00a0. \u00a0In <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2148820\" target=\"_blank\">Brutal Telling<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Gamache is called in when an unknown dead \u00a0body turns up in\u00a0\u00a0local bistro.\u00a0Penny&#8217;s skill is creating a\u00a0place that is so\u00a0appealing that \u00a0readers want to move there, bringing to life people you want to spend time with and describing\u00a0meals that make you salivate.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy Reichs works as a medical examiner in Quebec (and North Carolina).\u00a0Apparently, the tv show <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2214587\" target=\"_blank\">Bones<\/a><\/em><\/strong> was inspired by Reichs&#8217; work and she also works as a producer on the show.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 heroine of\u00a0her mysteries is Temperance Brennan, who, coincidentally, is a\u00a0 forensic anthropologist who works in both Quebec and North Carolina. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|907367\" target=\"_blank\">Monday Mourning<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is set in Montreal, where Tempe investigates the skeletons found in a pizzeria.\u00a0 In this installment, her romance with detective Andrew Ryan is not going well, though the\u00a0French\u00a0Canadian setting is as magical as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louise Penny\u00a0, a former\u00a0 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reporter,\u00a0steeps her mysteries in the French culture of Quebec.\u00a0Her\u00a0Chief Inspector Gamache\u00a0\u00a0series has\u00a0been compared to Agatha Christie (a small village setting and large cast of characters and\u00a0 surprise endings)\u00a0. \u00a0In Brutal Telling, Gamache is called in when an unknown dead \u00a0body turns up in\u00a0\u00a0local<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-armchair-traveler-quebec\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[1018,1046,1022,96,1021],"class_list":["post-5598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-canada","tag-forensics","tag-montreal","tag-mysteries","tag-quebec"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1si","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5826,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions\/5826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}