2023/158: A Fatal Grace — Louise Penny

2023/158: A Fatal Grace — Louise Penny

It was almost impossible to electrocute someone these days, unless you were the governor of Texas. To do it on a frozen lake, in front of dozens of witnesses, was lunacy. Someone had been insane enough to try. Someone had been brilliant enough to succeed. [loc. 1134]

Having very much enjoyed the first of the Inspector Gamache books, Still Life, I decided to treat myself to the second. (After reading The Brutal Telling, out of sequence and finding it jarring, I'm determined to read in order.) A Fatal Grace, set over the Christmas period in Three Pines, is at least as intricately plotted as the other two novels I've read: it also expands on Gamache's backstory( Read more... )

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