![]() ![]() In a literary landscape of detective murder mysterys where the protagonist is hard bitten, atheistic and cynical, and holds these values as virtues, it has always been refreshing to come across another Louise Penny novel. ![]() Review #4 Audio The Cruelest Month narrated by Ralph Cosham ![]() I came late to the enjoyment of Louise Penny’s work, and that’s a good thing because I still have nine books left to read. Gamache is a bit of a philosopher and fits well in Three Pines, where nearly every character has something important to say about life, art, or love. I was pretty sure who the murderer was, but the continual harassment of Gamache and his family had one surprise for me at the end. Whom can he trust among his team and his colleagues? This mystery was, for me, harder to solve than the murder of Madeleine Favreau in Three Pines. ![]() But besides the murder - which at first looks like something supernatural - Gamache is dealing with the continuing blowback from what we might call an Internal Affairs case that occurred before the first book in the series. Once again in The Cruelest Month, the almost-fairy-tale village of Three Pines is the setting for a murder case and Gamache and his team return to solve it. Louise Penny’s books, set in Qubec, have such a sense of place that they could not be set in Ontario, British Columbia, or the Maritimes. ![]()
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