A World of Curiosities

*** SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN ***

''Electrifying drama ... the bodies pile up, the intensity and horror are reminiscent of Thomas Harris at his finest. Gamache is a fascinatingly complex protagonist'' BOOK OF THE MONTH, THE TIMES

It''s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge.

But something has.

As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and woman have reappeared in the S-ret-u Qu-c investigators'' lives after many years. The two were young children when their troubled mother was murdered, leaving them damaged, shattered. Now they''ve arrived in the village of Three Pines.

But to what end?

Gamache and Beauvoir''s memories of that tragic case, the one that first brought them togethe