Gamache, stalwart of the Quebecois Sûreté, is handling the case, but there are corollary distractions for his assignment: one of his team is about throw a heavy spanner into the works – one that my destroy Gamache (but which member of the tem is it?).
A séance in a crumbling deserted house has had disastrous results, with one of the participants apparently frightened to death. Beneath the surface, destabilising secrets fester. But this is crime fiction, and there is (as aficionados know) always a skull beneath the skin. Once again the Canadian locales are vividly evoked: in the pretty town of Three Pines, it’s spring and spirits are high. After reading the final page, The Cruelest Month will be one you'll want to go back and savor again.Louise Penny has long been turning out some of the most adroitly written crime fiction in the genre (gleaning a slew of awards in the process), and her well-honed skills are once again to the fore in The Cruellest Month, another sterling entry in the series with her doughty copper, C.I. Each tiny piece of the plot has importance and will come together in a truly gratifying conclusion. The death does not occur until chapter eight and some readers might be tempted to skim, but resist. Her characters are unique and fresh, and will linger long in readers' minds. She can write in a few pages what others take chapters to tell, setting the place so thoroughly you believe you've lived there all your life.
Penny's dense, descriptive writing grows slowly like an addiction that leaves you wanting more. Slowly and carefully, like separating pages in a water sodden book, Gamache peels away the layers of lies and secrets until his investigation yields the killer and the Judas. He must search among the town's charming inhabitants for an unlikely killer, and he must search among his own team of officers for a traitor who wishes to bring him down. When Gamache arrives, he has more than one mystery to solve. When a witch agrees to hold a seance in an old haunted house, the perfect opportunity for murder presents itself. Everyone loved her-and everyone also had a motive to kill her. Madeleine Favreau brought sunshine and joy wherever she went. Can a person literally be scared to death? That's the question Chief Inspector Gamache asks when a woman is found dead following a seance in the idyllic town of Three Pines.
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