The New York Times Bestseller Winter in Three Pines & the sleepy village is carpeted in snow It's a time of peace & goodwill
- until a scream pierces the biting air A spectator at the annual Boxing Day curling match has been fatally electrocuted Despite the large crowd there are no witnesses &
- apparently
- no clues Chief Inspector Armand Gamache discovers a history of secrets & enemies in the dead woman's past But he has enemies of his own & as he is frozen out of decision-making in the Surete du Quebec he has to decide who he can trust