Chief Inspector Armand Gamache · Book 3
The Cruelest Month
- Published
- 1 May 2007
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9781410407160
- Type
- novel
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About this book
The Cruelest Month (2007) is the third Gamache novel, continuing Louise Penny's slow-build approach -- readers are often advised to stick with the series through these early entries, since the consensus is it shifts into another gear around book 5. It runs 320 pages, between A Fatal Grace and A Rule Against Murder.
Its place in Chief Inspector Armand Gamache
The Cruelest Month is book 3 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. It follows A Fatal Grace. It is followed by A Rule Against Murder. See the full Chief Inspector Armand Gamache reading order.
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec is the rarest thing in crime fiction: a genuinely good man. Courtly, patient, fluent in poetry and human weakness, he teaches his agents four sentences that lead to wisdom — I was wrong. I'm sorry. I don't know. I need help. — and solves murders not by trickery but by listening until people reveal themselves. His cases keep returning him to Three Pines, a village south of Montreal that appears on no map, where croissants and cafe au lait at Olivier's bistro…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781433233791
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