Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sr︣et ̌du Qub̌ec, has found a peace he?d only imagined possible. While Gamache doesn?t talk about his wounds, his neighbour Clara Morrow tells him about hers. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. She wants Gamache?s help to find him. Together with his former second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, and Myrna Landers, they journey deep into Qub̌ec, to the very mouth of the great St. Lawrence River. In this desolate area they discover the terrible damage done by a sin-sick soul. Bestseller. 2014.