Description
Book Synopsis*** SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN ***
''Electrifying drama'' BOOK OF THE MONTH, THE TIMES
''This is a hugely satisfying mystery of course, but more than that, it''s a chilling morality tale. Nobody does evil quite as scarily as Louise Penny'' ANN CLEEVES
It''s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has.
As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the investigators'' lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they''ve arrived in the village of Three Pines. But to what end?
As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, his alarm grows when a letter written by a
