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    <body><![CDATA[Louise Penny has become one of my favorite authors.  Her first and second books were selected by my book club.  Her third, The Cruelest Month, will be reviewed by us next week at our monthly meeting.<br/><br/>It had been a while since I had read her second book and I had to read slowly and try to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49168935">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[3rd novel featuring Chief Inspector Gamache<br/><br/>It is spring time in Three Pines; some of the villagers have decided to celebrate Easter with a séance at the Old Hadley House, hoping to rid the town of its evil spirits that have plagued it for decades ---- suddenly one of the attendees colla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45337501">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book the same way I found the Maisie Dobbs books - the list of Agatha Award winners on the Vancouver library website.  After reading the Maisie Dobbs book on the list, I ended up reading all the other Maisie Dobbs books (I think there are 6 or 7 of them) because I liked them so much.  T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69884046">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the third book of the Inspector Gamache/Three Pines mystery series. In this installment, with a psychic staying at the bed and breakfast, some of the residents of Three Pines decide to hold a seance -- at the spooky old Hadley house. When one of the participants appears to have been frighten...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69611768">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked up this &quot;cozy&quot; mystery that promises to be a bit deeper and more intelligent than the usual simply-entertaining cozy ... and found Penny's writing a fresh delight. Perfectly original turns of phrase and beautiful sentences. Details are delicious--the Easter egg hunt goes on for some...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37881414">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorites so far.  Gamache is all so human, and still carries on with his job... <br/><br/>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 C. I. Gamache of the Surete du Quebec arrives the next morning,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51622920">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All of the Armand Gamache books that I've read so far have been beautifully written.  Gamache is a complex character -- not your usual police detective -- he has a humanity about him that's very intriguing.  The village of Three Pines is a little like Cabot Cove of Jessica Fletcher fame -- how can a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77924411">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I liked this one best so far.   It explains the Arnot case that the other novels refer to.  Besides the Three Pines characters, and who could guess that Hazel did it!, the young homicide team members are brought more fully to life in this story, with Beauvoir finally expressing and realizing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61829137">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[#3 Armand Gamache &quot;Three Pines&quot; mystery in which the Sûreté du Québec detective and his team head back to the village of Three Pines to find out who scared a woman to death during a séance at the old Hadley House. The house, which Gamache has had the displeasure of seeing before, is sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40818666">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this third book in the Three Pines series the best.  Gamache's character is deepend and more appealing.  There is something about his desire to redeem, that strikes me as a virtue worth emulating.  Not willing to cast off those the world finds inferior he can bring out the best and set them ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25063713">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book won the agatha award at Malice DOmestic this yeat.<br/><br/>And it was a good book.  Makes me wish I had read others in the series first.  I felt like their was a LOT of backstory in this book.<br/><br/>But some very interesting characters.  And a town (Three Pines) that seems quite lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56593869">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Welcome to Three Pines, where the cruelest month is about to deliver on its threat. Its spring in the tiny, forgotten village of Three Pines. 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.]]>
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    <![CDATA[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 C. I. Gamache of the Surete du Quebec arrives the next morning, he faces an unusual crime scene. A seance in an old, abandoned house has gone horrifically wrong and someone lies frightened to death. For in idyllic Three Pines not all is as it seems. Toxic secrets lie buried, and something terrible has finally clawed its way out. And even Gamache has something to hide. One of his own team is preparing to betray him. But who is it? And how far will they go to ensure Gamache's downfall? ]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am over half way through the novel and so far I am very excited and engrossed in this book. I am listening to the book - and the narrator is excellent providing the narration with a humor and a bit of a wink. However there is a major plot line in this book that is having major impact on the main c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73091337">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just discovered Louise Penny before Christmas and have loved the three books of hers that I've read. The Cruelest Month starts a little more slowly maybe than the other two, with perhaps more on the Easter egg hunt than seemed important. But, it builds and deepens, with layers and surprises coming...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46099823">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A must read. This is the best mystery series I have read in a long time.  Reminiscent of P.D. James.  Sound like heresy, I know, but I may even like them better!? Quality writing -- intricate, complex, but at the same time, enormously readable.  Great characters and plot twists galore.  Poetry and g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80117768">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this (listened) and Armand Gamache is quite the character...but all the characterizations were good, even Lillian and Rosa.  The Quebec setting, several languages, Canada, in general, added to the interest.  I did like the levels of secrecy and intrigue, with inspector Nicolle being...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44807428">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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