![]() ![]() 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. Finally! The Arnot case has been hanging over Chief Inspector Gamache since the first book in the series. ![]()
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