Every word of the 160-year-old letter is filled with dread. In it, the man describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Did their mother’s murder hurt these children beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds, buried for decades, festered, and are they now about to erupt?Īs Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a long-dead stonemason is discovered. Gamache and Beauvoir’s memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them together, come rushing back. Now they’ve arrived in the village of Three Pines. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators’ lives after many years. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge.Īs the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. But not everything buried should come alive again. It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series.
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