A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel: 2

Product Information

This is the second book in the series and the second that I've read, in both cases because the book was selected by one of the book clubs to which I belong. It’s a lot like one of those Florida senior villages, where the staff always tries to shut out all the nasty shadows of life. In the end the text reduces Crie to the symbol of her mother's evil, a reflection/victim of her mother's narcissism. And for a while it seemed that it was only the characters who were being cruel but then I read this passage about a 12 year old girl. Louise Penny is the Number One New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Gamache series, including Still Life , which won the CWA John Creasey Dagger in 2006.

He'd climbed into the tree, almost feeling tickled by its rough bark, as if he had been sitting on his grandfather's lap and snuggling into his unshaven face. Highly recommend if you're in the mood for a fast easy-to-read crime-mystery with well-developed recurring characters (each with their own secrets) that you get to know better with each installment.No goddamned enlightenment,' she'd said to Saul in her Montreal office the day a batch of rejection letters arrived, ripping them into pieces and dropping them on the floor for the hired help to clean up. Might she have been hiding something bigger, something even more disgusting than the tidbits she puts on display? Are there any significant clues to be found in the video cassette of The Lion in Winter that turned up in CC's garbage after the murder? This may be old, but I am just reading it – I understood why they attempted suicide – it was to take the fall for Crie, but there are several loose ends in this book, such as how Cree could possibly purchase the niacin, and make this elaborate plan, not knowing about the boots and set up and traditions. It is a book in which the values the story claims to be promoting (compassion, love, generosity, respect for human dignity) are actually entirely undercut by the text itself.

This is a fine mystery in the classic Agatha Christie style, and it is sure to leave mainstream fans wanting more.

I don't mean that to sound as dismissive as it probably does, and again, I understand that there are large numbers of readers who would love to live in Three Pines, but I'd probably go stark raving mad in less than a week. Even the revelation that she's intelligent, cunning, and desperate enough to have arranged her mother's ingenious murder is shown hand-in-hand with a portrayal of her in a catatonic fantasy not altogether different from CC's own narcissistic delusions. A Fatal Grace, by Louise Penny, published in Canada as Dead Cold, is the second novel in the Three Pines Mysteries series, which feature Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, published in 2007. This is the one with a shocking curling match, a stinky dedication, and a weird ball retrieved from a dumpster. It wasn't all that long ago, before he'd taken the contract to freelance as CC's photographer and lover, that he'd actually thought the world a beautiful place.

Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. I liked reacquainting myself with the regulars and popping into the bistro and the cozy little homes again. The writing is beautiful, poetic in places, and it managed to transport me to the snow covered Three Pines, a place I plan to revisit soon. There is no shortage of potential suspects and the murder of a homeless woman in Montreal appears to have ties to both CC and Three Pines.And the cables aren’t short – they run all the way back along the side of the bleachers to behind, where the truck is? She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (five times) and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. But he has enemies of his own, and as he is frozen out of decision-making in the Surete du Quebec, he has to decide who he can trust. I don't think I could continue to read an author who would use such strong terms to describe an abused child. I guess it’s a thread that will perhaps run through the next several books, sort of tying them all together.