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The Cruelest Month

Louise Penny

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#860 of 8,085 books · #203 in Crime & Thriller

Won the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel (2008). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

It's Easter, and on a glorious Spring day in peaceful Three Pines, someone waits for night to fall. They plan to raise the dead . . . When Chief Inspector Gamache of the Surete du Quebec arrives the next morning, he faces an unusual crime scene. A séance in an old abandoned house has gone horrifically wrong and someone has been seemingly frightened to death. In indyllic Three Pines, terrible secrets lie buried, and even Gamache has something to hide. One of his own team is about to betray him. But how far will they go to ensure Gamache's downfall?

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Publisher
Hachette UK
ISBN-13
9780748129645
Topics
Murder investigationBetrayalSmall-town secrets

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