If you are a Louise Penny fan, this book will not disappoint! Her 16th novel, finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Paris. When walking home with billionaire Stephen Horowitz, he is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man’s life. Then a strange key is found in Stephen’s possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Sûreté, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d’Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art. Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past, and his own family. LIBRARY JOURNAL calls this novel, “One of the best crime fiction books of the year.”