As the villagers of Three Pines prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the Sûreté du Québec investigators' lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered. As Chief Inspector Gamache works to uncover answers, a letter written by a long dead stone mason is discovered. The letter describes his terror while bricking up an attic room somewhere in the village. When the room is found, the villagers decide to open it up. Gamache, Beauvoir and the villagers discover a world of curiosities. But the head of homicide soon realizes there's more in that room than meets the eye.
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