CC de Poitiers was a difficult woman, constantly berating her husband, lover and young daughter. It wasn't that surprising that she was murdered, but the circumstances were: She was electrocuted during a curling event on a frozen lake on an especially bitter day, in the view of many people. A number of factors had to be right for the electrocution to happen: the murdered woman had to have bare hands on a frigid Canadian morning, while wearing boots with metal cleats on them while touching a metal chair that the current was sent through. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec, while employing his team to get all the evidence and learn all they can about the dead woman, spends time getting to know all he can about the people who knew CC, confident that if he can get people to talk in an informal setting, he can learn who had reason to murder her. Author Penny never gives us just one case, though. Woven within the story is Gamache's interest in another case that later appears to be connected: a homeless woman whose name is not even fully known (just "L") who was murdered outside a store in Montreal.This is the second book in this series.
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