Chief Inspector Armand Gamache · Book 2

A Fatal Grace

by Louise Penny

Published
30 May 2006
Pages
320
ISBN-13
9780312352561
Type
novel

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About this book

A Fatal Grace (2006) is the second Gamache novel, published in the UK and Canada as Dead Cold -- same book, different title. It runs 320 pages and continues the early chapters of the Surete corruption arc that runs beneath the series' individual murder cases.

Its place in Chief Inspector Armand Gamache

A Fatal Grace is book 2 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. It follows Still Life. It is followed by The Cruelest Month. See the full Chief Inspector Armand Gamache reading order.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec is the rarest thing in crime fiction: a genuinely good man. Courtly, patient, fluent in poetry and human weakness, he teaches his agents four sentences that lead to wisdom — I was wrong. I'm sorry. I don't know. I need help. — and solves murders not by trickery but by listening until people reveal themselves. His cases keep returning him to Three Pines, a village south of Montreal that appears on no map, where croissants and cafe au lait at Olivier's bistro…

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