Fatal Grace (#446) is the second book in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, set in the quaint town of Three Pines, Quebec. And don't bother looking for it on a map, much as you might want to book yourself into the cozy B&B featured in these stories; even Chief Inspector Gamache can't find the town on his maps.
When a part-time resident is murdered in a clever and diabolical way right in the middle of a crowd watching a Boxing Day curling match, Gamache and his associates are recalled to Three Pines to crack the case. No one appears to be mourning the victim, CC de Poitiers, including her husband and adolescent daughter. The intense cold and the snow factor into the case, as do events in the past. It's bound to affect the residents of Three Pines and Gamache himself when the murderer is finally uncovered.
Be sure to have an afghan and the hot chocolate ready when you curl up with this engrossing mystery. Just one word of advice; make sure you've read the first book in this series, Still Life, before you pick up this story or you'll miss quite a bit of the subtext!
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