The third is a quirky but seemingly pleasant young man, Benedict, a handyman in his apartment building in Montreal, who hopes to work as a contractor. The first comes when Gamache learns he has been named as a liquidator (a kind of executor) of the will of Bertha Baumgartner, a cleaning woman who had lived nearby and worked for some of the family in Three Pines and called herself “The Baronness.” Myrna Landers, the bookstore owner, is also a liquidator. Meanwhile, Gamache is determined to recover the drugs.Īll this is in the background of the two plot lines in this novel. Interrogations of his son-in-law, Guy de Beauvoir, who is now Chief Inspector of Homicide, suggests they are preparing to scapegoat Gamache, and Beauvoir has to decide whether he is going to save his own job or remain at the side of his father-in-law. He has admitted to it all, but the hope is that he’ll be restored to his position of Chief Superintendent.
The drug is the highly lethal carfentanyl. It meant looking the other way on a drug shipment, some of which is about to hit the streets of Montreal. Summary: Gamache, Myrna, and Benedict, a young building maintenance worker who hopes to be a builder are named as liquidators of the estate of a cleaning woman while Amelia Choquet, caught with drugs, is expelled from the Academy to the streets as a powerful and lethal drug is about to hit.Īrmand Gamache is on suspension for his highly irregular (and ultimately effective) operation described in the last novel. As he uses increasingly audacious, even desperate, measures to retrieve the drug, Armand Gamache begins to see his own blind spots. With the deadly drug about to hit the streets, Gamache races for answers. Enough narcotic to kill thousands has disappeared into inner city Montreal. And while most of the opioids he allowed to slip through his hands, in order to bring down the cartels, have been retrieved, there is one devastating exception. The investigation into what happened six months ago-the events that led to his suspension-has dragged on, into the dead of winter.
But it isn't the only menace Gamache is facing. But what if, Gamache begins to ask himself, she was perfectly sane? When a body is found, the terms of the bizarre will suddenly seem less peculiar and far more menacing. The will is so odd and includes bequests that are so wildly unlikely that Gamache and the others suspect the woman must have been delusional. None of them had ever met the elderly woman. Still on suspension, and frankly curious, Gamache accepts and soon learns that the other two executors are Myrna Landers, the bookseller from Three Pines, and a young builder. When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head of the Sûreté du Québec discovers that a complete stranger has named him one of the executors of her will.
#THE KINGDOM OF THE DEAD BY LOUISE PENNY SERIES#
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