"The Cruelest Month" is the third book in the mystery/crime series featuring Inspector Armand Gamache. I really like this book, am totally hooked on this series and the characters that return to each book. Each of them have a solidness to them that makes them so entirely real in my mind. In each book I learn a little more about each character's past, their fears, and how they interact with each other. And then there is Gamache...man of strong morals and ideals...okay, I have a crush on him...he can do no wrong in my eyes!

Jacket notes: "Easter, the time of rebirth, is being celebrated in the small Canadian village of Three Pines in ways that have become part of village tradition. There are dinner parties among friends, and the hiding of Easter eggs for the young to find. On this Good Friday at the end of April Three Pines smells of fresh earth and the promise of spring. Clara Morrow is finishing an important painting and Hazel Smyth is getting ready for the weekend visit of her daughter Sophie. A witch has come to stay at the B&B and Gabri has invited everyone to a séance. And overlooking the village the Hadley house broods. When Friday night's séance yields no satisfactory results the witch suggests a séance in the Hadley house on Easter Sunday. As the participants sit in a sacred circle and the witch calls on the house to yield up its wickedness and hatred, death arrives with a scream."

Besides the main plot in this book, another sub-plot is resolved in this book...one involving Gamache and the Sûreté. This is perfectly fine, since I'm sure that Louise Penny has much more in store for Gamache, his family, and the other returning characters in her books.