Additionally, she must have been murdered by someone close enough to know she had a heart condition, the result of her previous breast-cancer treatment. Madeleine’s autopsy reveals ephedra, a banned substance, and Gamache realizes its presence in her system means that Madeleine was murdered. At the height of the ritual, Madeleine had a heart attack and died. While the first séance seemed like a bit of fun, the second, at the Hadley house, was frightening. Jeanne Chauvet, a Wiccan and psychic, came to Three Pines for a holiday, but Gabri arranged for her to entertain the villagers. The séance was the second one, held on Easter Sunday the first, two days earlier, happened at Gabri and Olivier’s bed-and-breakfast. Gamache and Beauvoir, his second in command, have been in the Hadley house before, and even Beauvoir, a self-proclaimed skeptic, believes the house is evil and should be destroyed. She died suddenly at a séance the villagers held at the Hadley house, an infamous local landmark that was the site of a prior murder. This study guide uses the eBook edition published in 2008 by Minotaur Books.įollowing the adventures of Inspector Gamache and his team in Still Life and A Fatal Grace, The Cruelest Month sees them all return to Three Pines, a small village in Quebec, to solve the murder of Madeleine Favreau.
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