Review: The Cruelest Month

The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Again, I found this murder mystery to be extremely comforting. A combination of the author's writing and the narrator's voice makes me wish to go live in the village of Three Pines, even if people keep turning up dead of unnatural causes.
I was very pleased to get more background for the Arnaud case which kept being mentioned in the previous book ([b:A Fatal Grace|352921|A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2)|Louise Penny|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327918653s/352921.jpg|343141]). I now feel that has been properly addressed and not just alluded to. It was an unexpected bonus to learn how Ruth's duck (which I met in [b:The Brutal Telling|6449551|The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #5)|Louise Penny|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327952311s/6449551.jpg|6639657]) came to be with her.
I had already listened to a few of the later books, but I hope that I haven't yet exhausted the series because it's so much fun to visit that world. I do have to be careful or else I'm likely to start looking up emigration information.



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