

Her secretiveness was fueled by generations of family bitterness and resentment. Stranger still, the woman, who called herself the Baroness, has left millions to her three children, money everyone is shocked to hear about.


He and two others who arrive at the house learn that they've been named executors of a will belonging to a woman they never knew in life. Currently suspended from his Sûreté post during the investigation into the controversial events of Glass Houses (2017), Gamache must remember he's here on unofficial business. But is there danger waiting beyond the door? It's what Gamache has been trained to anticipate. Curiosity is what brings him here after receiving a vague invitation in the mail. The Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec finds himself in a unique position: He's tangled up in the life of a recently deceased woman, and it doesn't involve her murder.Īs the first snowflakes of a major storm start to fall, Chief Superintendent Gamache is standing in front of a crooked house in the middle of the woods, unsure of whom he will find inside.
