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It’s spring in the tiny, forgotten village of Three Pines.
But not everything is meant to return to life...
When a group of villagers decide to celebrate Easter with a séance at the Old Hadley House, they are hoping to rid the town of its evil—until one of their party dies of fright. Was this a natural death? Or was the victim somehow helped along?
THE CRUELEST MONTH
Enter Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. He knows evil when he sees it. But this time, he’s investigating a case that will force him to face his very own ghosts...as well as those residing in this seemingly idyllic town. Are the residents of Three Pines hiding something great and sinister about their past? Or is April about to deliver on its fateful threat?
“If you don’t give your heart to Gamache, you may have no heart to give.”—Kirkus Review (starred review)
“Penny takes exquisite care to create, flesh out, and nurture.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“The cozy mystery has a graceful practitioner…in Louise Penny.”—The New York Times
Chief Insp. Armand Gamache and his team investigate another bizarre crime in the tiny Québec village of Three Pines in Penny's expertly plotted third cozy (after 2007's A Fatal Grace). As the townspeople gather in the abandoned and perhaps haunted Hadley house for a séance with a visiting psychic, Madeleine Favreau collapses, apparently dead of fright. No one has a harsh word to say about Madeleine, but Gamache knows there's more to the case than meets the eye. Complicating his inquiry are the repercussions of Gamache having accused his popular superior at the Sûreté du Québec of heinous crimes in a previous case. Fearing there might be a mole on his team, Gamache works not only to solve the murder but to clear his name. Arthur Ellis Award-winner Penny paints a vivid picture of the French-Canadian village, its inhabitants and a determined detective who will strike many Agatha Christie fans as a 21st-century version of Hercule Poirot. (Mar.)
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Tom Bolding
reviewed The Cruelest Month (Armand Gamache Series #3) on August 27, 2019
The Cruelest Month (Armand Gamache Series #3)
4 stars for another entertaining mystery in the Armand Gamache series. This is book 3 in the series, and I recommend that you start with book 1. There are 2 plots in this book. One is a murder in the fictional town of Three Pines, Quebec, located near the US Vermont border. The second is a group of Surete Quebec officers who want revenge on Gamache for something that happened years before. This part of the story is more thriller, in that the reader learns who the bad guys are in book 2.
The first approximately 80 pages move very slowly, but I became invested in the book, reading 140 pages on the third day. My wife and I agree that this book had a very slow start, but you should persevere for a good ending. There are several false clues and I was not sure of who the killer was until the end.
The author has Gamache and his number 2, Jean Guy Beauvoir, driving down to Three Pines from Montreal and talking about the terrible dirt road leading into Three Pines with potholes described as"an asteroid crater" and Gamache worrying about how long his tires would last. My wife and I drove some of these dirt roads while looking for covered bridges 2 months ago, and they are every bit as bad as the book says.
Both my wife and I plan to keep reading the series.
Some quotes
"But Three Pines was a village forgotten. Time eddied and swirled and sometimes bumped into it, but never stayed long and never left much of an impression."
Gamache about murder: "Fear might stop some people from people from committing murder, but he knew for certain fear was what drove most people to kill. It was nested behind all other emotions. It was what twisted and turned the other emotions into something sick."
"Our secrets make us sick because they separate us from other people."
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