"The Cruelest Month" by Louise Penny: A Gripping Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Novel

Angela W: I enjoyed learning more about each character. I highly recommend the entire series. Thank you Mrs. Penny. I need to go. I have time to start the next one.

United States on Nov 08, 2023

Excellent Story: Enjoy this one. Great characters and excellent details. You almost feel like you are right there with every event. I will be continuing with this authors books.

United States on Nov 06, 2023

Nene: Another the great story with the great Inspector Gamache! I always love the great descriptive words; makes me wish I lived in Three Pines, the allure of the village, and the food prepared by Olivier! The weather makes you want to wrap in a nice electric blanket. Lol
Once again Armand had to fight those inside the Surete, while solving a murder! I love the way Gamache handles trouble than his way! On to the next....

United States on Nov 05, 2023

A Parrish: After watching Three Pines on tv I picture Alfred Molina as the Inspector. I thoroughly enjoyed that series too. This still gives me feelings of the movie Fargo in the setting of Three Pines and it's fabulous villagers and village. In this book you get more background on the issues the Inspector has to face from his best friend and a fellow officer and more causing chaos. All while plodding on with his new set case. I look forward to reading book 3

United Kingdom on Oct 29, 2023

PVilagi: My first review said I did not understand my thought of this author. The second book put me on the road probably much traveled. I am so glad I picked up this third book. Now I understand the author a little better. She writes characters in stories that keep you reading her messages because, let me tell you, she has a message in each book. Please begin reading Louise Penny’s stories. There will never be a disappointment. Because to me, she showed me how to understand people …and let them be.

United States on Oct 25, 2023

Amazon Kunde: Interessante Handlung, vielfältige, spannende Charaktere

Germany on Oct 21, 2023

xmitzi: Again finding my friends,their deep characters intertwined..a p d the mystery .
If you have not found these people yet…… it is a must.
Mitzi

Canada on Oct 03, 2023

Kimberly: I really like the overarching story Penny is is weaving. However, I do feel each book takes me a bit to get into. However, I feel pretty invested in continuing this series. I don’t mind the slower pace.

As with the others, I sort of figured out the culprit, sort of didn’t. Penny is really good at making me second guess myself—even when I feel the answer is obvious.

The last fifty pages of this one really got me. The way she revealed both this book’s main story and important pieces of the series’s continuing story. So good.

I do recommend this series. And will keep reading. I like this kind of reliable storytelling that’s intriguing even if not an edge of your seat thriller.

United States on Sep 03, 2023

Mary R: This is the third in the series and just like the second one, when I started reading it I fell into a really relaxed state. It's amazing how a series can bring about a sense of comfort and relaxation, just like coming home.

Three Pines is a place I'd love to visit, full of charm and quirky characters, a great bistro and yet the source of various murders. This time it seems someone has died of fright, or have they? At the time Gamache is being hounded in the press with someone in the Surete determined to exact some form of revenge.

I just love the character of Gamache and the totally different characters in his team, and really enjoy the journey each investigation brings you on. This time, he made me more infuriated with his relaxed and determined reaction to the photos and stories in the press but you just can't help but love him in general. I was so wrong in who I thought had committed the murder but looking back, it was there the whole time. I was just so distracted by everything else that was going on.

A really enjoyable read in a great series.

United Kingdom on Feb 02, 2023

Laurie ‘The Baking Bookworm’: My Review: Penny once again writes with humour, heart and a whole lot of mad skill in this third book in her highly popular Inspector Gamache series. As in her previous books it's the characters that truly make this series stand out from all of the other mystery series our there.

I will admit that this wasn't my favourite book in the series so far but still a good read. I love that Penny doesn't spoon feed her readers dialogue or give away the mystery in one fell swoop. Instead she drops little hints to her readers throughout the book but in a way that you don't realize it until she decides to help you piece it together. The mystery itself was good (not great) but it was the people of Three Pines as well as Gamache's turmoil and side story that had me turning pages into the wee hours of the night.

The magic of this series is not only the stellar writing (Penny can fling some amazing prose) and the good mysteries but ultimately I keep coming back to this highly popular series because of the characters. Penny uses multiple points of view to give her readers an in-depth view of the mystery and its people but it never feels disjointed. These points of view really make...

Canada on Nov 02, 2015