Recommended by Dunsborough Book Chat Club
The story begins in the idyllic town of Three Pines. A missing coat, an intruder alarm, a note for Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, reading “this might interest you,” a puzzling scrap of paper with a mysterious list – and then a murder, but something much more sinister is fast approaching.
CI Armand Gamache head of homicide at the Sûreté, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, his son-in-law and second in command, and Inspector Isabelle Lacoste can only trust each other. Old friends begin to act like enemies, and long-time enemies appear to be friends.
Determined to track down the threat before it becomes a reality, their pursuit takes them across Québec, to the Vatican, and even to rural France. Their hunt grows increasingly a race against time. If they fail, the devastating consequences would reach into the largest of cities and the smallest of villages.
The story is rather slow moving including a lot of detail that is not necessary.
3/5 Stars