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A review by adamgolden
A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
3.0
(3/5★)
While I found the second installment in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series to once again be another cozy, comfortable mystery set in the serene village of Three Pines, I was less impressed with the plot this time around. The real mystery of the novel doesn't really begin until halfway through, and in comparison to the first book, it isn't nearly as thrilling. It's not often that I can accurately guess who the culprit was within the first quarter of the book, but this was one of those cases. While that does tarnish the ending and plot in general, the setting of Three Pines and the down to earth characters still make A Fatal Grace an enjoyable read that was easy to breeze through within a couple of days.
While I found the second installment in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series to once again be another cozy, comfortable mystery set in the serene village of Three Pines, I was less impressed with the plot this time around. The real mystery of the novel doesn't really begin until halfway through, and in comparison to the first book, it isn't nearly as thrilling. It's not often that I can accurately guess who the culprit was within the first quarter of the book, but this was one of those cases. While that does tarnish the ending and plot in general, the setting of Three Pines and the down to earth characters still make A Fatal Grace an enjoyable read that was easy to breeze through within a couple of days.