![]() ![]() On the walls hang paintings of a mysterious bejeweled woman and King Leopold II of Belgium. The table where she writes overlooks woods dotted with snow-covered pines ideally suited for concealing a corpse. Penny, 59, said with a devilish laugh from her cozy, art-filled home in Knowlton, the Eastern Townships village where she lives and that inspired Three Pines, the fictional setting of her 13 books. “I am a killing machine but a happy one - I get all my resentments out in my books,” Ms. ![]() She has bashed a prior in the head with an iron door knocker at a cloistered monastery electrocuted a deeply unpopular socialite on the ice during a curling tournament and literally frightened someone to death at a séance. ![]() In her murder plots, bad things happen in placid Canadian territory. KNOWLTON, Quebec - Louise Penny, the unfailingly cheery detective writer, is a ruthless killer. ![]()
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