A strange death is reported in a small village south of Montreal, and Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are dispatched to the site. Jane Neal was a well-known figure in the little community of Three Pines, which is located close to the U.S. border. Her body was discovered in the woods. The townspeople are convinced that Jane Neal died tragically in a hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something nasty in these isolated woods and quickly becomes convinced that Jane Neal was killed by someone far more sinister than a negligent bowhunter.
