This starts as a small-town mystery and becomes something grander and more frightening Penny has upped her thrills-to–pain au chocolat ratio.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Moral duty has been synonymous with our hero, but Penny seems to be pushing her characters in new directions with this installment: “ considered his options and the atrocity he was about to commit.” The ending is adrenaline-filled but, no, not because of the mysterious will.

The main mystery pales in comparison to Gamache's interior story, and the decisions he makes are sure to raise a few eyebrows. Penny reveals a deeper vulnerability in the introspective Gamache is it possible he's not quite sure of himself anymore? A theme of desperation plays out in both story arcs, as characters from all walks of life move between hope and despair and traverse the fine line that separates them. And though it may seem like Gamache has all the time in the world to dive into this dark history, his attention is in fact divided: The deadly opioid that slipped untraced into Montreal under Gamache's watch is expected to hit the streets any day-a most unsettling thought. 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.

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