"No one liked CC de Poitiers -- not her family, not her lover, not her neighbors in Three Pines. When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to investigate CC's sudden death on the day after Christmas, it seems like an impossible murder. How could she have been electrocuted in the middle of a frozen lake in the midst of Three Pines annual curling match without anyone seeing a thing? In the beautiful but deadly Quebec winter, Gamache digs for secrets...

A neighbor's missing artist husband pulls reluctant, retired ex-Chief Inspector of Homicide Armand Gamache down a winding path to the twisted truth. Gamache, his old second-in-command, and Myrna Landers soon follow a desperate artist's dark attempts to recapture the old fame he once enjoyed, journeying to the St. Lawrence River as they discover the desolate, disturbing portrait of a man with a blackened soul. Chief Inspector Gamache novel series,...