 The novel won other awards, including the "New Blood" Dagger award in the United Kingdom, the Arthur Ellis Award in Canada for best first crime novel, the Dilys Award, the Anthony Award and the Barry Award for Best First Novel in the United States.Penny continues to write, garnering major crime novel award nominations for almost every one of her novels and subsequently winning several of those awards.Her work features Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, head of the homicide department of the Sûreté du Québec.