
Nominated for best Novel (Anthony 2011)
It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and
surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has
come not to celebrate but to recover from an investigation
gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable,
even in the seemingly peaceful Literary and Historical
Society--where an obsessive historian's search for the
missing remains of the founder of Quebec ends bizarrely in
murder. Injured himself and in need of rest, Gamache cannot
walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite
long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he receives letter after letter from the village
of Three Pines, where beloved Bistro owner Olivier was
recently convicted of murder. "It doesn't make sense,"
Olivier's partner writes every day. "He didn't do it, you
know." Despite the overwhelming case against Olivier,
Gamache sends his deputy back to Three Pines to make sure
that nothing was overlooked. Through it all, in his painstaking quest for justice,
Gamache must relive the terrible events that killed one of
his men before he can begin to bury his dead.
 Chief Inspector Gamache
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