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Cover art for A Fatal Grace
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| Author | Louise Penny |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Chief Inspector Armand Gamache |
| Genre | Mystery, crime novel |
| Published | 2007 (St. Martin’s Press) |
| Pages | 320 (first edition, hardcover) |
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| Preceded by | Still Life |
| Followed by | The Cruelest Month |
A Fatal Grace, by Louise Penny, is the second novel in the Three Pines Mysteries series, which feature Inspector Armand Gamache.
Inspector Gamache investigates after CC de Poitiers, a sadistic socialite, is fatally electrocuted at a Christmas curling competition in the small Québécois town of Three Pines. CC, who had a “spiritual guidance” business based on eliminating emotion, was hated by seemingly everyone, including her husband, lover, and daughter. The crime links to a vagrant’s recent murder as well as to the pasts of several other villagers.
A Fatal Grace was the recipient of the Agatha Award for best novel of 2007.