An Evening with Louise Penny (Tickets Required)

Schedule

Fri Oct 31 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Knox United Church | Winnipeg, MB

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Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Seek sanctuary at Knox United Church this Halloween night as Louise Penny, the doyen of Canadian mystery, returns to Winnipeg to launch the 20th Armand Gamache novel, The Black Wolf (Minotaur). Hosted by Penny's longtime friend, the incomparable Shelagh Rogers, this promises to be an evening of mystery, insight, and laughter.
Tickets are NOW ON SALE for this offsite event. It will not be livestreamed so please act quickly if you wish to join us for this special October evening.
Louise Penny is the multi-award winning author of the Chief Inspector Gamache novels, set in her home province of Québec, Canada. A former Winnipeg resident during her days with the CBC, her books, including State of Terror written with Hillary Rodham Clinton, have sold more than 18 million copies worldwide, topped international bestseller lists, including the New York Times, the Winnipeg Free Press, The Globe & Mail, and been translated into 32 languages. The recipient of both the Order of Canada and l'Ordre national du Québec, her country's highest civilian honours, her Three Pines Foundation reaches out to those in crisis and offers financial and emotional support, with a special focus on literacy as well as dementia care. Her husband, Michael, died of dementia in 2016. She lives with her Golden Retrievers Muggins and Charlie in a village south of Montréal.
Her brand new mystery, The Black Wolf picks up just several weeks after the events of Penny's #1 New York Times bestselling novel The Grey Wolf. It finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec playing a lethal game of cat and mouse with an invisible foe who is gathering forces and preparing to strike...
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Where is it happening?

Knox United Church, 400 Edmonton St, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2M2, Canada

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McNally Robinson Booksellers

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