Series: Three Pines Book 2
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Length: 320 pages
Audiobook Length: 10 hours and 31 minutes
First Published: 2006
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Rachael’s Review
At the Three Pines’ annual curling tournament, CC de Poitiers is electrocuted in the middle of the frozen lake. The whole town was there but no one seems to have seen anything. Just days after Christmas and a year after his first visit, Inspector Armand Gamache returns to the sleepy Quebec town to investigate the murder of the one woman everyone seemed to hate.
I took longer to get into the second book of the Inspector Gamache series. A Fatal Grace gets off to a slow start, introducing new characters and immersing you back into life at Three Pines. Once the murder occurs and Inspector Gamache arrives, the story settled into the familiar feeling of the first book, a charming cozy mystery set in a small town. A small town that apparently attracts a lot of murder.
Publisher’s Description
Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is preparing for murder.
No one liked CC de Poitiers. Not her quiet husband, not her spineless lover, not her pathetic daughter―and certainly none of the residents of Three Pines. CC de Poitiers managed to alienate everyone, right up until the moment of her death.
When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, of the Sûreté du Quebec, is called to investigate, he quickly realizes he’s dealing with someone quite extraordinary. CC de Poitiers was electrocuted in the middle of a frozen lake, in front of the entire village, as she watched the annual curling tournament. And yet no one saw anything. Who could have been insane enough to try such a macabre method of murder―or brilliant enough to succeed?
With his trademark compassion and courage, Gamache digs beneath the idyllic surface of village life to find the dangerous secrets long buried there. For a Quebec winter is not only staggeringly beautiful but deadly, and the people of Three Pines know better than to reveal too much of themselves. But other dangers are becoming clear to Gamache. As a bitter wind blows into the village, something even more chilling is coming for Gamache himself.
Quotes from A Fatal Grace
When someone stabs you it’s not your fault that you feel pain.
Don’t mistake dramatics for a conscience.
About Louise Penny
Louise Penny is the author of the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels. Her husband Michael was the inspiration for Armand Gamache; he died in 2016. Penny currently lives in a small village south of Montréal. Visit the author’s website →
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