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“Few authors in just about any genre could complement Penny’s capability to mix heartbreak and hope.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review)It's Winter Carnival in Quebec City, surpassingly lovely and bitterly cold. Main Inspector Armand Gamache has come to not join the revels but to recuperate from a study eliminated hauntingly incorrect. But severe death is unavoidable, even yet in the sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society--where a compulsive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, leads to homicide. Might a solution hidden with Champlain for pretty much 400 years be so terrible that somebody might kill to safeguard it?Meanwhile, Gamache is getting disquieting characters in the town of Several Pines, where precious Diner proprietor Olivier was recently convicted of homicide.