Review
The Brutal Telling (An Armand Gamache Novel) by Louise Penny
Once again, Chief Inspector Gamache and his team are called in to strip back layers of lies, exposing both treasures and rancid secrets buried in the wilderness. It is Penny s fastidious, cultured, and smart Inspector Gamache who makes The Cruelest Month impossible to put down. --Peoplebr /br /One of the best traditional mystery series currently being published. --Booklist (starred review)br /br /Penny produces what many have tried but few have mastered: a psychologically acute cozy. No one admits to knowing the murdered man, but as secrets are revealed, chaos begins to close in on the beloved bistro owner, Olivier. How did he make such a spectacular success of his business? What past did he leave behind and why has he buried himself in this tiny village? And why does every lead in the investigation find its way back to him? As Olivier grows more frantic, a trail of clues and treasures from first editions of Charlottes Web and Jane Eyre to a spider web with the word WOE woven in itlead the Chief Inspector deep into the woods and across the continent in search of the truth, and finally back to Three Pines as the little village braces for the truth and the final, brutal telling.. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. If you don t give your heart to Gamache, you may have no heart to give. --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Chaos is coming, old son.