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kblincoln 's review for:
The Cruellest Month
by Louise Penny
Reading this third book shed alot of light on plot points in the Netflix Three Pines series. We also get the culmination of Yvette Nichols' standoffish behavior and some stirrings from an old case that brought Gamache the ire of his fellow Surete officers.
We're also back in Three Pines where Gamache uncovers, with his trademarked listening, walking around the village, eating of bread slathered with pate and drinking hot drinks in Olivier's Bistro with various community members, another murder resulting from long-buried resentment.
This time is a newer resident (we don't hear much about the suspects and victims from prior books other than oblique references to the Hadley House being saturated with sadness and the spectre of death) who dies, but once again Gamache, his lieutenant Beauvoir, and trust Lacoste are on the case.
I'm still enjoying this peek into Quebecois / Anglo life as well as Montreal references (my daughter attends McGill as USA student). The author is still fairly heavy handed with Gamache's deep depths of empathy, courage, and philosophical bent. There's a kind of heavy preachiness at times, coupled with some really selfish awful behavior even amongst well loved Three Pines residents not suspects of murder that chafe somewhat.
Still, I am charmed by it all and will keep going. We get more insight into Gamache's children, the incident that made him a Surete outcast, as well as Bro-mance development with him and Beauvoir.
We're also back in Three Pines where Gamache uncovers, with his trademarked listening, walking around the village, eating of bread slathered with pate and drinking hot drinks in Olivier's Bistro with various community members, another murder resulting from long-buried resentment.
This time is a newer resident (we don't hear much about the suspects and victims from prior books other than oblique references to the Hadley House being saturated with sadness and the spectre of death) who dies, but once again Gamache, his lieutenant Beauvoir, and trust Lacoste are on the case.
I'm still enjoying this peek into Quebecois / Anglo life as well as Montreal references (my daughter attends McGill as USA student). The author is still fairly heavy handed with Gamache's deep depths of empathy, courage, and philosophical bent. There's a kind of heavy preachiness at times, coupled with some really selfish awful behavior even amongst well loved Three Pines residents not suspects of murder that chafe somewhat.
Still, I am charmed by it all and will keep going. We get more insight into Gamache's children, the incident that made him a Surete outcast, as well as Bro-mance development with him and Beauvoir.