“Chaos had found three Pines. It was bearing down upon them, all that was safe and warm and kind was about to he taken away."

Three pines has been flipped around. The old Hadley House, the location of malevolence and demise, has been bought by Marc and Dominique Gilbert and is going to open as an extravagance Hotel and Spa. Oliver, the ongoing proprietor of the town's current B and B and Bistro, is angry at this interruption into what he sees as his region. More terrible, a dead man has been found in the entryway of Oliver's B and B and nobody appears to know what his identity is.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebecis, has been called to the scene. The police find a lodge in the forest that nobody knew was there, and decided it to be the home of the dead man.

All things considered, nobody recognizes having known him. Everybody lies, that's what gamache knew. He and his group "chased the rests and uncovered them. Until every one of the little stories told to ease regular daily existences vanished. What's more, individuals were left exposed."

Inside the lodge, they make another shocking revelation, "This is a gallery. Each piece is a vestige, precious." The house is loaded with extremely valuable curios, each being utilized as regular things to eat off of and use in alternate ways.

There are first version books and the drafts in the toilet are stopped with dollar notes. The police should figure out who this man is, the way he came to be in control of these extremely valuable antiquities and who might need him dead.