It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surprisingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come ... (more)
It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surprisingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revelers but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Library and Historical Society -- where an obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly four hundred years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it? (less)