The Cruellest Month

What's in this book, at a glance — five things readers want to know before they start.

What this book is about

Spring arrives in Three Pines, and a group of villagers gathers in the old Hadley house — long considered the most cursed location in the village — for an Easter séance. What begins as an uncomfortable evening ends in death when one of the participants is found dead of fright. Or apparent fright. Chief Inspector Gamache investigates, and the séance reveals that every person in the room had something to hide. The third Inspector Gamache novel is the first to fully open the Hadley house — a building that has cast a shadow over Three Pines since the beginning — and the investigation reaches back decades into old wounds the village has never fully healed.