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A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Gamache)

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Although Louise had me from the acknowledgments at the beginning of Still Life, there came a scene in A Fatal Grace that gave me chills in a way that only the very best manuscripts ever have. sure to create great reader demand for more stories featuring civilized and articulate Chief Inspector Gamache. A FATAL GRACE is not for everyone, not an easy read, but it is a fascinating mystery and a work of genius. In Louise’s books I am always stopping to admire wonderful images or jokes or observations (or descriptions of food!

I was surprised and delighted to find myself back in the village of Three Pines for the second Gamache mystery.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. This book sealed the deal on my deciding to continue on with the series as I was nicely surprised by the second offering. He accepts it and is a very happy guy anyway, either because of or in spite of continuous inner reflection. They were as warm and brilliant and funny as you might imagine from reading Louise’s books, and it’s been a joy to work with her ever since. I am not sure how many times I’ve read A Fatal Grace , but I still find it as extraordinary as I did back in 2006.

By that time, Still Life had won many awards (including the Anthony, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Dilys, and New Blood Dagger) for Best First Novel, but not the Agatha; and we didn’t want to jinx anything by expecting her to win Best Novel for A Fatal Grace. Sitting at the front of the crowd, the victim stands up, touches the chair in front of her and is promptly electrocuted.I also marvel that someone like me, who is at least as much of a skeptic as Jean-Guy Beauvoir, can find myself wondering about such mysteries as lemon meringue pie.

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