I am enamoured with the Gamache novels! This is the fourth one I have listened to – for someone reason I started with number 12. I think there is 20 of them, so I will be working on them for a while. I listened to this one (this audible version)
Here’s the blurb …
Welcome to Three Pines, where the cruelest month is about to deliver on its threat.
It’s spring in the tiny, forgotten village; buds are on the trees and the first flowers are struggling through the newly thawed earth. But not everything is meant to return to life. . .
When some villagers decide to celebrate Easter with a séance at the Old Hadley House, they are hoping to rid the town of its evil—until one of their party dies of fright. Was this a natural death, or was the victim somehow helped along?
Brilliant, compassionate Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec is called to investigate, in a case that will force him to face his own ghosts as well as those of a seemingly idyllic town where relationships are far more dangerous than they seem.
I do like the Three Pine’s locals’ stories progressing: Clara and the very jealous Peter (I wish we could see Clara’s paintings), Ruth and her ‘babies’, etc. Even Agent Niccol is improving. This was another interesting murder – very cunningly planned. We still have the machinations at the Sûreté headquarters and Armand Gamache is his usual charming, kind self.
A review
I am very much looking forward to listening/reading the next one (A Rule Against Murder). I am currently listening to Misdirected by Lucy Parker, which is fabulous (read by Nicola Coughlan and Gwilym Lee).