It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. The Finney family, rich, cultured and respectable, has also arrived for a celebration. Then a terrible summer storm leaves behind a dead body, and it is up to Chief Inspector Gamache to unearth secrets long buried and hatreds hidden behind polite smiles.
