The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny

I read the third book of the Inspector Gamache series out of sequence but I still really enjoyed it. I gain little insight from each book.  The message of The cruelest month?-beware the near enemy!  Myrna, the psychologist turned bookstore owner tells Inspector Gamache that a near enemy is a

"psychological concept.  Two emotions that look the same but are actually opposites.  The one parades as the other, is mistaken for the other, but one is healthy and the other's sick, twisted... Attachment masquerades as Love, Pity as Compassion and Indifference as Equanimity." (p.197)

Read the book to find out how this concept plays out in the murder of a much-loved woman and in the life of Inspector Gamache and his team. 311 pages.