When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, he discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will. Still on suspension, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are a bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder. None of them had ever met the woman. When a body is found, the terms of the bizarre will suddenly seem less peculiar and far more menacing.
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