The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues from the Surete du Quebec to a small village in the Eastern Townships. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of Three Pines - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force.
But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets...
A fascinating start to a series that I hope I will keep reading (I read this one as it was a #readforkimberly pick), this is a murder mystery where the main character is a Police Officer, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, who along with his team needs to solve the death of a retired schoolteacher, he luckily has his 2nd in command with him, not so luckily he also has a Rookie who seems not to want to listen to the seasoned Officers, this book starts off slowly and gradually builds to the crashing completion - 5 out of 5!