Book #2 | Winter (1 year after book #1 which takes place in October)
Boxing Day Murder at the Curling Tournament
Three Pines is more familiar to me this time and so I wasn't as confused by the characters and am more used to the writing style. In this visit, it is Christmas and the village is making festive preparations. You meet a women named CC who imagines herself to be the next Martha Stewart and yet everyone who knows her or meets her is just turned off by her philsophies, decorations, and personality. She has moved to the village with her daughter and husband. The day after Christmas, a curling tournament is held on the lake. CC is murdered in open air by electricution and noone sees the murder. Inspector Gamache is called in to investigate. Meanwhile something is amiss in his professional life and there are hints that trouble is brewing for him too.
Book #2 | Spring | 2007
Easter Seance Murder at a Haunted House
A famous pychic is visiting Three Pines and the villagers decide to do a seance at the old Hadley house which is thought to be evil and hanted. On Easter evening, during the event, someone dies of fright or perhaps it is murder. Inspector Gamache is called in to investigate. We learn more hints about what professional trouble is happening in his life.
This book opens with a funny scene of the villagers hiding chocolate Easter eggs and then finding them all eaten up the next morning by the wildlife. This happened several years ago and so now they just hide wooden eggs. It has become dangerous to be in the area during this time because bears have been known to be appearing each year looking for more chocolate. Also quite whimisical, Ruth Zardo, the elderly, quirky town poet hatches and fosters duck eggs.
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