Cruellest Month, The [Import] [Paperback]

Louise Penny (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Headline (2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0755328965
• ISBN-13: 978-0755328963
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 1.1 x 7.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,833,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

LOUISE PENNY is an award-winning journalist who worked for many years for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She lives in a small village south of Montréal where she writes, skis, and volunteers. Her bestselling first mystery, Still Life, was the winner of the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards; and her second, A Fatal Grace, won the Agatha Award for Best Novel in 2008. Visit her website at www.louisepenny.com.

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another winner from Penny, December 4, 2007

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L. J. Roberts (Oakland, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cruellest Month (Tradepaper Canadian Edition) by Louise Penny (Paperback)

First Sentence: Kneeling in the fragrant moist grass of the village green Clara Morrow carefully hid the Easter egg and thought about raising the dead, which she planned to do right after supper.

It is Easter and Inspector Armand Gamache has been called back to the small town of Three Pines where a woman has been literally frightened to death during a séance in the old Handley mansion. Gamache has his own ghosts to uncover as someone is out to destroy his career, his life and that of his family. To save himself, he must uncover a murderer and a spy in his midst.

There are not a lot of authors whose words beg me to read them aloud, but I spent the weekend annoying a friend with my constant "Listen to this...". There is such humor and incite in Penny's writing. For me, she hits all the right notes; wonderful sense of place, fascinating well-rounded human characters, excellent dialogue, a bit of suspense, meticulous plotting and just a faint touch of spiritualism. I came away from this, and all her books, feeling I've been giving a bit of insight on human nature but never that I've been preached to.

For me, this book was so much more than a basic traditional mystery and quite possibly, the best of her books yet. The only problem I had with this book was that life kept getting in the way of my reading time. Highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the Cruellist Month, August 2, 2010

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Louisa R. Fleming - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Cruellest Month (Hardcover)

Good book, plot keeps you thinking, fun humor that is low-key, insightful as to human nature.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Three Pines delight, June 25, 2008

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L. Walker (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cruellest Month (Tradepaper Canadian Edition) by Louise Penny (Paperback)

Louise Penny, I'm a fan. Your characters are well and interestingly crafted with real emotions and witty dialogue. Your plots are well constructed and never transparent, a real plus in a mystery.
Inspector Gamache is such a favorite of mine I long to read more...a prequel with more about him personally would probably be well-received since he is such a wonderfully three-dimensional personality.
A lot of great pull and tug: relationships, bi-lingual Quebec, politics within the police force.
Oh how I look forward to book number four!