A Fatal Grace (Three Pines Mysteries No. 2)

About this book

Winner of the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel! 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 daughterand 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 Sret du Quebec is called to investigate he quickly realizes hes 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 murderor 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.