Armand Gamache, Myrna Landers and Benedict Pouliot are summoned in midwinter to an old farmhouse not far from Three Pines to discover why they have been nominated as executors of a bizarre will of a woman they have never met. Gamache and his friends and family members at Three Pines investigate the background story of the dead woman as well as other family members who may, or may not, inherit a fortune from another will made 130 years previously. When a body is later discovered at the farmhouse, Gamache, Jean-Guy Beauvoir and Isabel Lacoste investigate. However this is not the only investigation demanding the attention of Gamache. Serving a suspension from the Surete du Quebec due to a supply of new drugs going missing Armand Gamache is determined to stop the drugs being released on to the streets.
These books also contain references to poetry, not only because one of the residents of Three Pines is a poet but also because Armand like to quote lines of poetry. "In the kingdom of the blind the one eyed man is king" (Erasmus), one of the many quotes used by Armand Gamache in this book, is significant to one of the narratives in the novel.
Once again this was a book that I didn't want to put down. This has to be one of my favourite series of books.
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