At the Three Pines' annual curling tournament, CC de Poitiers is electrocuted in the middle of the frozen lake. The whole town was there but no one seems to have seen anything. Just days after Christmas and a year after his first visit, Inspector Armand Gamache returns to the sleepy Quebec town to investigate the murder of the one woman everyone seemed to hate.

I took longer to get into the second book of the Inspector Gamache series. A Fatal Grace gets off to a slow start, introducing new characters and immersing you back into life at Three Pines. Once the murder occurs and Inspector Gamache arrives, the story settled into the familiar feeling of the first book, a charming cozy mystery set in a small town. A small town that apparently attracts a lot of murder.