Instead Gamache and Myrna, arrive separately, not knowing the other was coming, at a tumbled down farmhouse. Well, this time no murder in the village. True, I had to laugh, but it is the characters, the the people that live there, and the way they care for each other, even the demented poet Ruth. I mentioned that to someone and they said, Yes, but they have alot of murders for such a small town. Three Pines, such picturesque village, I would love to live there, if it was real of course. I tried to make it last as long as possible, reading it slowly, even though I wanted to rush to the end. With the deadly drug about to hit the streets, Gamache races for answers.Īs he uses increasingly audacious, even desperate, measures to retrieve the drug, Armand Gamache begins to see his own blind spots. And while most of the opioids he allowed to slip through his hands, in order to bring down the cartels, have been retrieved, there is one devastating exception.Įnough narcotic to kill thousands has disappeared into inner-city Montréal. The investigation into what happened six months ago-the events that led to his suspension-has dragged on, into the dead of winter. When a body is found, the terms of the bizarre suddenly seem less peculiar and far more menacing.īut it isn't the only menace Gamache is facing.

But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly sane? The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional.

None of them had ever met the elderly woman. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder. When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will.

Penny kingdom of the blind