When they murdered you, they just whacked you over the head. Unlike the English, “The Quebecois were straightforward, clear. Penny employs some humor in “The Cruelest Month,” perhaps dark humor. In an earlier book, he has taken Agent Nicol as a project she has failed to live up to the standards in the eyes of everyone on the team, so why does Gamache continue to allow unacceptable behavior? Is this somehow related to the Arnot Case?Ĭan someone really be “scared to death”? If so, how? If it is indeed murder, why? Gamache regularly takes young cast-outs to mentor if he thinks they have unrecognized potential. The fact that the séance takes place there is one of the factors that makes it seem as though it may not be death by natural causes. The old Hadley house again becomes a main character in the story, as it has before. In this book, Inspector Gamache is off to Three Pines again, this time when a woman is apparently “scared to death” in a séance.
By the end of this third book, it is cleared up, sort of. And what has made it worse is the reader has been unaware of the details, which have only been teased. Was this a natural death, or was the victim somehow helped along?īrilliant, compassionate Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the SQ (Sûreté du Québec) is called to investigate, in a case that will force him to face his own ghosts as well as those of a seemingly idyllic town where relationships are far more dangerous than they seem.Finally! The Arnot case has been hanging over Chief Inspector Gamache since the first book in the series. When some villagers decide to celebrate Easter with a seance at the Old Hadley House, they are hoping to rid the town of its evil - until one of their party dies of fright. But not everything is meant to return to life. It's spring in the tiny, forgotten village buds are on the trees and the first flowers are struggling through the newly thawed earth.
Welcome to Three Pines, where the cruellest month is about to deliver on its threat.
The book's title is a metaphor not only for the month of April but also for Gamache's personal and professional challenges - making this the series standout so far.’ ‘Many mystery buffs have credited Louise Penny with the revival of the type of traditional murder mystery made famous by Agatha Christie.
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