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First I must say that as soon as I have time, I must replace my shelf "Books set in Canada" with separate shelves for each province, and perhaps the territories as well. Louise Penny's books, set in Québec, have such a sense of place that they could not be set in Ontario, British Columbia, or the Maritimes. Once again in The Cruelest Month, the almost-fairy-tale village of Three Pines is the setting for a murder case and Gamache and his team return to solve it. But besides the murder -- which a
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Ridiculously good. But don't start reading the Inspector Gamache novels with this one! Start at the first book, Still Life. There are threads in the first three novels that for the most part get tied up in this, the third one. The final 20 or so pages of The Cruelest Month are among the most nail-biting and heartbreaking I have ever read. Penny is a master, and for my money the current Queen of the genre.
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