Amazon Prime Video has canceled the show based on Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache books, Three Pines, after just one season.
According to Deadline, the news was confirmed by showrunner Emilia di Giorlamo, source material writer Louise Penny and star Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers on Instagram.
Tailfeathers described the cancellation as “difficult to process” and said that as an Indigenous actor she “never thought I’d have the opportunity to be the leading woman on a show like this.” Three Pines had come in for praise for its nuanced portrayal of Indigenous people and issues.
Penny claimed the show had, at one point, been No. 1 for Prime Video in the U.S., Canada and the UK.
“I am shocked and upset,” she added. “Like any show, [Three Pines] had growing pains but it was only going to get better and better.”
Starring Alfred Molina as Inspector Armond Gamache, Three Pines followed the protagonist as he investigates cases beneath the idyllic surface of the Quebec village of Three Pines. There, he solves numerous murder mysteries, and the series had been left on a cliffhanger, with Gamache’s life on the line as his team tried to find him.
Mystery book super blogger J. Kingston Pierce wrote that Three Pines was cut down in its Prime: “Despite it sometimes boasting a quirky air similar to Twin Peaks, I was quite taken with Three Pines and looked forward to seeing what could be done in Season 2. Unless another TV streamer picks the show up, the answer to that question will remain a mystery.”
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In the menu tabs under the “MORE,” you will find a link to all major classic mystery books from 1748 to 1948 — a terrific resource. Check it out.
Some of us mystery nuts organize our books in the most bizarre ways. Here is a link to a list of mystery books in which the most bizarre weapons were used by their antagonists. In scanning the list (see how I waste my days?), I found three books in which the rod that secures index cards into the old library catalog drawers was used.
Do we dare to meet live in the library? Oh yeah, the young thugs of today wouldn’t know a card catalog drawer if they were hit over the head with it. Oooops, could that be another weapon?
Of course the purpose of the rod was to secure the cards so that they could not fall out by accident. It is easy to imagine what would happen if someone (accidentally or on purpose) were to knock over the whole stack of drawers if there were no rods. Do I hear motive for a librarian as antogonist?
I remember visiting a library where a bust of Louisa May Alcott had been deliberately dropped on a librarian’s head from a balcony. Fortunately, it just missed her head. That was in a book and the library was in Concord, so it must have been real. 😉 Those that made the that list of weird murder weapons in mystery books, clearly missed death by a bust of Alcott!
By the way, going full circle here, one of Louise Penny’s books was on the list for an unusual murder weapon. Guess which one?
