''A cracking storyteller'' ANN CLEEVES''Stellar . . . With her smart plot and fascinating, nuanced characters, Penny proves again that she is one of our finest writers'' PEOPLE MAGAZINEThere is more to solving a crime than following the clues.Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache''s world of facts and feelings.In the green depths of spring, morning breaks on a woman splayed in a bed of flowers - her eyes wide, her neck broken.Her death is a mystery; so is the woman herself. But as Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team peer into the dark corners of the victim''s past, they expose a secret that rots at the very heart of their community - a secret that will implicate someone they''ve trusted for years. And as Gamache knows too well, in the flickering shadows of death, the truth may be just a trick of the light.Millions of readers worldwide.One inimitable Chief Inspector Gamache.