Fifty-year-old artist Clara Morrow, having survived her first solo show at the famed Mus?e in Montr?al, returns to her home in the tiny village of Three Pines for a celebration with close friends, but her high spirits are dashed when the body of an old art school classmate is found in her garden, leaving Chief Inspector Gamache to navigate the light and shadow of the art world in search of answers.
