Book 18 in the acclaimed and number one-bestselling Three Pines series featuring the beloved
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. It's spring and Three Pines is re-emerging after the harsh
winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should
return. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration Armand
Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have
reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators' lives after many years. The two were young
children when their troubled mother was murdered leaving them damaged shattered. Now they've
arrived in the village of Three Pines. But to what end? Gamache and Beauvoir's memories
of that tragic case the one that first brought them together come rushing back. Did their
mother's murder hurt them beyond repair? Have those terrible wounds buried for decades
festered and are now about to erupt? As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers
his alarm grows when a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. In it the man
describes his terror when bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. Every word of the
150-year-old letter is filled with dread. When the room is found the villagers decide to open
it up. As the bricks are removed Gamache Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of
curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there's more in that room than meets the
eye. There are puzzles within puzzles and hidden messages warning of mayhem and revenge. In
unsealing that room an old enemy is released into their world. Into their lives. And into the
very heart of Armand Gamache's home. PRAISE FOR LOUISE PENNY AND THE INSPECTOR GAMACHE SERIES:
'Enthralling ... With beautifully drawn characters this is crime writing of the highest order'
DAILY MAIL 'A satisfying and multi-layered mystery in Penny's excellent series' IRISH
INDEPENDENT 'Louise Penny is on peak form ... a grown-up timely thriller that considers the
nature of cowardice ... merges the personal and professional life of her detective with equal
skill and wit' THE TIMES 'A great sense of place and characterisation ... very much a book
that will make you think' SHOTS 'Louise Penny is one of the greatest crime writers of our
times' DENISE MINA 'Gamache has become to Canada what Hercule Poirot is to Belgium' THE NEW
YORK TIMES 'Louise Penny twists and turns the plot expertly tripping the reader up just at
the moment you think you might have solved the mystery' DAILY EXPRESS 'The series is deep
and grand and altogether extraordinary . . . Miraculous' WASHINGTON POST 'No one does
atmospheric quite like Louise Penny' ELLY GRIFFITHS
